Today I ran into R memory issues. Upon investigation, I was suggested to try out “feather” package. The problem I faced was that the package was released with R version 3.3 while I was still using R version 3.2. I tried install.packages(“feather”) but the command failed. I also tried compiling from source using devtools but that did not help either. Eventually, I decided to update to version 3.3.
I came across this post “Updating R from R (on Windows) – using the {installr} package“. It is a short and simple tutorial to update R version. To summarize:
- open Rgui
- run following code
- choose from options as they appear
# installing/loading the package: | |
if(!require(installr)) { | |
install.packages("installr"); require(installr)} | |
# using the package: | |
updateR() |
My packages did not copy correctly to the new directory and I had to do it manually.
Thank you Tal Galili for sharing this easy way to update R.
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