[Fedora-r-devel-list] How to handle already installed libraries ?

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 12:07:45PM +0200, pingou wrote:
> > 
> Maybe the new feature of R 2.6 could help on that point...
> 
> > R CMD INSTALL --preclean cleans up the sources after a
> > previous installation (as if that had used --clean) before
> > attempting to install.
> 
> Should we use it ? (in the sense that now that R implements it)

Then R CMD INSTALL --preclean would be called in a pre script or the
like? rpm already takes care of removing old files?

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Pat