[R] Old version of R base and additional packages

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 17/05/2014 15:43, Ville Hallikainen wrote:
> Dear R-users,
> what is the most easiest way to download old versions of R and it's
> packages. I have found some functions, but none of them have worked. How
> to use the Archieve for this purpose. I would like to have detailed
> instructions for Ubuntu and Mac.

So please follow the posting guide and ask on R-sig-debian and R-sig-mac 
respectively.  The 'detailed instructions' are in the 'R Installation 
and Administration Manual' for the version(s) of R you want.

The 'easiest way' is to retrieve them from your personal backups (and 
the only reason I can guess for wanting to do this is to reproduce old 
work using tools you once had).

Older OS X binary R distributions are available at 
http://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/old/ .  Only current (at the end of 
the R series) binary packages are available on CRAN, so older ones would 
need to be installed from the sources under src/contrib/Archive, 
following the instructions in the manual.

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