Stuck trying to Update R and RStudio

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#1

I'm relatively new to R and as well I have been away from it for a while (6 months). Initially R alerted me that there is a new version 4.2.3. I have tried the website:
[https://www.r-statistics.com/2013/03/updating-r-from-r-on-windows-using-the-installr-package/#google_vignette]
But I've found I got lost not following the instructions exactly. I can see on my C:\ drive that the 4.2.3 version is there but when I check the version in RGui it shows me that I have 4.2.2 installed. I also need to update Posit as well but I haven't gotten very far with that either.
I would sure appreciate some assistance getting out of this mess, can you help please?

  • As has been suggested there may be no advantage persisting with this update. I'm fine with that except that when I checked my C:\ drive 4.2.3 is showing there with a similar group of folders compared to earlier versions, somehow the process didn't go the whole way to completely install R 4.2.3. Anyway, unless you have other suggestions I'll leave it as is and update when the next update comes around, in a more organised way.
    Thanks
#2

Point version differences are truly minor 4.2.2 to 4.2.3. See the release notes. They accumulate, so being, say, at 4.1 when the world has moved on to a hypothetical 4.7 means a greater likelihood of breakage. You should continue to work on this so that eventually when it’s important to your situation, you will know how. I can’t help with Windows (Haven’t done anything with it since the 90s). Don’t be anxious about how long it takes so long as you have a currently working setup.

#3

On Windows each R version gets installed independently so you just need to download and run the installer from CRAN

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/

RStudio doesn't require any special consideration either, just down and run the installer.

https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/windows/RStudio-2023.03.0-386.exe

After that you can either install packages for your new R version from scratch or move the content of your old package library to the new location and run update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)

#4

Thanks for your wise words @technocrat

#5

Thanks for your help, Andresrcs!

#6

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