FInd packages in need of Update (like RStudio) - R-help

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 6:38 AM #

Hi,

does anyone know how one would look which packages require an update
(like the Tools -> Update Packages) but can do it from R (ie Rscript) or
any other way from the command line (on the MAc)

I would like to build this into my update script which currently does
brew, cpan and pip3 :-)-O

greetings, el

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Sarah Goslee

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 7:06 AM #

Does update.packages() meet your needs?


Sarah

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Jeff Newmiller

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 7:08 AM #

This is not normally something one would apply automatically, as it can break existing code. But wouldn't?update.packages be the obvious choice interactively?

On December 23, 2020 6:38:41 AM PST, Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.NA> wrote:

Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

Deepayan Sarkar

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 7:30 AM #

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:09 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el at lisse.na> wrote:

? old.packages

Best,
-Deepayan

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Dr Eberhard W Lisse

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 7:59 AM #

Thanks,

	update.packages(dependencies = TRUE, ask=FALSE)

does what I want.

greetings, el

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Dr Eberhard W Lisse

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 8:08 AM #

Or rather

	Rscript -e 'local({r <- getOption("repos");r["CRAN"] <-
"https://cloud.r-project.org/";options(repos =
r)});update.packages(dependencies = TRUE, ask=FALSE)'

as a one liner :-)-O

el

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Dr Eberhard W Lisse

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 8:09 AM #

Thank you,

but the RFTM suggestion helped me even more :-)-O

greetings, el

On 2020-12-23 17:06 , Sarah Goslee wrote:

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