From geoffjentry at hexdump.org  Thu Oct 20 18:25:41 2011
From: geoffjentry at hexdump.org (Geoff Jentry)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Rd] RFC: 'igraph' package update and backward compatibility
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On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Hadley Wickham wrote:
> The optimal solution would be if R packages could depend on a specific
> version of a package, and a user could have multiple packages

You used to be able to have a versioned install of a package, and then 
load a particular version.  Not sure when it was removed.



[Rd] RFC: 'igraph' package update and backward compatibility
Geoff Jentry