Check for updates under Windows (Was: a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?)
Yes, that's more or less what I mean. Thanks! Maybe this functionality can be added to src/gnuwin32/rui.c Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyihui at gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Barry Rowlingson
<b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
Dear R developers, I asked this question in r-help list but have not got a definite solution yet, and I think it might be more appropriate to ask developers or CRAN maintainers directly. Many software packages often have a menu item like "Check for updates" under the "Help" menu, e.g. Filezilla and Firefox, and I believe it is also necessary for R (at least for R GUI under Windows). Note all users really have to update R, but we should make it clearer to them that new versions are available. Yes, they can go to R homepage to check by themselves, but my experience tells me it is rarely the case. Therefore, I wish RGui could gain a new menu to check for updates of R. Thanks very much!
Something like this:
?winMenuAdd("Updates"); winMenuAddItem("Updates","R
Version","require(gtools);checkRVersion()")
Barry