Finding packages after R and Rstudio upgrade

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I upgraded both R and Rstudio, and now Rstudio can not find my previously installed packages.

Do I simply change the directory name that Rstudio looks for the packages, and if so how do I do this?

Or should I reinstall packages, and delete old versions?

Thank you.

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This is related to R, not RStudio, if you are on windows, each R version gets its own package library, that is why the new version can't see your old packages.

After a major R update, you have to reinstall all packages anyway because binaries are compiled for a different R version, so even an update (with checkBuilt = TRUE) will actually reinstall all packages.

You can change the default library folder by setting your R_LIBS_SITE environmental variable on a .Reviron or .Rprofile file, for example:

# In a .Renviron file you can set it by adding a line like this one but with your desired library path
R_LIBS_SITE="C:\\Program Files\\R\\R-4.1.0\\library"

For a more detailed explanation, you can read this blog post

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Thank you very much. Do I simply delete the entire folder that contains the older packages, or is there something in that folder I still need?

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Yes, you can delete the old library folder safely.

6

Thank you.

Perhaps this should be an option in updating R.

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