R

[Kirthevasan Kandasamy]

alternatively,
you could switch to matlab :P

On Tue, Sep 29, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Predrag Punosevac <predragp at cs.cmu.edu>
wrote:

> Maria De Arteaga Gonzalez <mdeartea at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
>
> > Hi Predrag,
> >
> > My desktop has R 3.2 installed, however, many of the packages that I use
> for my research only work for R 3.1, could I downgrade? Thanks,
> >
>
> Actually after trying to downgrade your version of R for about 45
> minutes I realized that is a wrong way to deal with the problem.
> Downgrading packages is very difficult as all dependencies have to be
> resolved manually. In system administration we call that Red Hat Hell.
> The real way to deal with your problem is to upgrade manually installed
> package. Kyle brought to my attention that automatics updates of R
> (which I turned on)  are braking manually installed R packages. There is
> a way to deal with it. I just need to read about 20 pages of the
> documentation before I can do it.
>
> Between plotting in R shell is broken since last week due to shady QA by
> EPEL people. I am hoping that the upstream will fix the problem soon and
> that will not have to "downgrade" things.
>
> Finally Dr. Dubrawski have overheard me using word obsolete in the same
> sentence with R. Our R is the latest and the greatest (or maybe not so
> great). Our installation of RStudio (IDE) is obsolete as upstream cares
> only for Windows. The upshot of having the old version of RStudio is
> that R plots still work from it.
>
> Best,
> Predrag
>
>
>
> > Maria
> >
> > Mar?a De Arteaga
> > PhD Student in Machine Learning and Public Policy
> > Carnegie Mellon University
>
>
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