[R] Rcmdr doesn't seem to work

[Vittorio]

Alle 15:33, martedì 1 febbraio 2005, Prof Brian Ripley ha scritto:
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 v.demartino2 at virgilio.it wrote:
> > Got it and now it all works....BUT I'm puzzled by the fact that I
> > systematically update all the packages in R 2.0.1 using
> > 'update.packages()'. Why in this case R was unable to find the obsolete
> > versions of Rcmdr and rgl and substitued the with new ones?
>
> Were they `obselete versions'?  Almost surely not, just built against the
> wrong version of R.
>
> As from R 2.1.0 there is update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) for precisely
> this job.  Update.packages() updates the versions of the packages, not of
> R: why did you think otherwise?


I understand now that my mistake was to force the installer of the binaries 
under win xp to use always the same directory to install the different 
versions of the programme, that is d:\programmi\R, without any reference  to 
the version itself. This causes kind of of a sedimentation of obsolete stuff.

Thanks for the answer.

Vittorio