[R] Getting an older version of a package

[Le Wang]

Duncan Murdoch,

Many thank you for your reply. I did try to download the older
versions from CRAN. But I am not quite sure how to compile the source
form. I tried using the option "install package(s) from local zip
files" in R, but it didn't work. It simply gave the following msg

> utils:::menuInstallLocal()
updating HTML package descriptions

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 24/05/2009 4:00 PM, Le Wang wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Thanks for your time in advance.
>>
>> I am using an add-on package from Cran. After I updated this package,
>> some of my programs don't work any more. I was wondering if there is
>> anything like version control so that I could use the older version of
>> that package; or if I could manually install the previous version and
>> how I could acheive it? I am not a regular R user; although it is
>> supposed to be very easy, after spending many hours on this, I still
>> haven't figured out how to proceed. Your help will be greatly
>> appreciated.
>
> CRAN has the older versions of the package available in source form. You
> need to download one of those and install it:  but watch out for other
> packages that depend on the newer one.  In the long run, it's probably a
> better investment of your time to fix your programs to work with the new
> package.  (Or possibly report to the package maintainer if they have
> introduced a bug.)
>
> Prior to R 2.9.0, it was possible to install multiple different versions of
> packages, but this never worked perfectly, and it has been dropped.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>