Installing multiple versions of R

Question

When I was in school the system administrator had multiple versions of R installed. I\'m running into a bug with R-3.1.0 and need to install reinstall some past versions of

Answer 1

I'm not an expert on R but on Linux you can always use schroot and debootstrap to create a new isolated environement with different versions of R, libraries, ... Actually I use it to compile different versions of code for RedHat, Ubuntu or Debian.

See for example: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebootstrapChroot

(Once you get use to it, it will take no more than 20 minutes to create a new chrooted system)