From ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de  Thu Mar 24 17:45:12 2005
From: ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de (Uwe Ligges)
Date: Thu Mar 24 17:45:17 2005
Subject: [Rd] rw2010alpha
In-Reply-To: <loom.20050324T172439-935@post.gmane.org>
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Message-ID: <4242EE98.8000001@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>

Gabor Grothendieck wrote:

> Until recently R 2.1.0 was called rw2010dev.  I just visited
> 
>    http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rdevel.html
> 
> and noticed its now called rw2010alpha, not rw2010dev.  I would like 
> to use it without downloading all the libraries over again.
> 
> Can I 
> 
> - just rename my rw2010dev folder (Windows XP) to 
>   rw2010alpha and then install rw2010alpha to that?  or 

yes

> - install it in a separate rw2010alpha folder, distinct 
>   from the rw2010dev folder and then somehow copy the libraries 
>   from one to the other? or 

yes

You can also install packages to a separate library and specify that one 
to be used by both versions.

> - do I have to download the libraries all over again? or 

no

> - some other solution?


You can use the packages compiled for R-devel also for R-2.1.0 alpha. 
Copying/renaming either way should work in this case.

Uwe Ligges


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[Rd] rw2010alpha
Uwe Ligges