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| Sometimes there are problems uninstalling older versions of R. In these cases, R may be uninstalled manually. | Sometimes there are problems uninstalling older versions of R. In these cases, R may be uninstalled manually. | ||
| To do this one has to remove the directory containing the R binaries and additionally removing some registry entries. | To do this one has to remove the directory containing the R binaries and additionally removing some registry entries. | ||
| - | You need administrator privileges to be able to do this! Be careful, manipulating the registry can leave you with a nonworking system! | + | You need administrator privileges to be able to do this! Be very careful, manipulating the registry can leave you with a nonworking system! |
| - | To manually remove R 2.12.2 completely one needs to do the following (as administrator) | + | As an example, here is what needs to be done |
| + | to manually remove R 2.12.2 completely. (Administrator privileges are needed to perform these operations) | ||
| - | - Delete the home directory of the R version you want to remove (typically "C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.2") | + | - Delete the home directory of the R version you want to remove (typically ''C:\Program Files\R\R-2.12.2'') |
| - Remove the each one of following registry entries (depending on your installation not all of them might exist) | - Remove the each one of following registry entries (depending on your installation not all of them might exist) | ||
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