[R] Problem with compatible library versions

[Uwe Ligges]

No.

In 10 years you may have different hardware and a different OS, so that 
the old R and old packages won't run on the new hardware or produce 
different results. This may even happen for some sort of containers and 
virtualizations.

To be really safe, you ideally need to keep the whole system as is (but 
then there are security updates etc).

Best,
Uwe Ligges




On 11.10.2023 14:54, Ebert,Timothy Aaron wrote:
> Is that a method where a program that I write today would still run without changes in 10 years?
> Tim
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> There is a fairly straightforward way to load older versions of packages, and that is to use the 'groundhog' package.
> As the first sentence of https://groundhogr.com/ puts it:
>     Make your R scripts reproducible by replacing library(pkg)
>     with groundhog.library(pkg, date).
> 
> pkg can be a vector of package names or a single name.
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> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 20:58, Uwe Ligges <ligges using statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10.10.2023 17:34, Sabine Braun wrote:
>>> On the github website I have reported several bugs with new versions
>>> of the tidyverse group (probably dplyr) which prevent me from using
>>> R normally. I wanted to go back to older versions but this seems not
>>> bo be easy. I downloaded R 4.1.2. and Rtools 40 but the library
>>> versions
>>
>> So this is on Windows.
>>
>> Actually, if you install R-4.1.2 and use a clean library and install
>> binaries, then you should get binary installation from CRAN that fit
>> to the R-4.1.x series.
>>
>> If you want to install older package versions, then you have to
>> install these one by one from sources, unfortunately.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>> installed are still the newest ones. I was able to install dplyr 1.0.7.
>>> manually but there are error messages on incompatibility when
>>> loading this version. Is there a possibility to load older library
>>> versions which alre compatible ?
>>>
>>> Thank you very much!
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>>
>>> Sabine Braun
>>>
>>>
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