Message-ID: <4520ea97-119c-32d7-f676-816f58deda68@lisse.NA>
Date: 2020-04-02T13:16:06Z
From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Subject: Homebrew
In-Reply-To: <DFED73F2-17FA-43E5-A0C1-91345A04B27A@krugs.de>
Rainer,
I am definitively interested.
But, as a disclaimer, I am an elderly Gynecologist only dabbling in R
and a little in Perl :-)-O.
el
On 02/04/2020 12:43, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>
>> On 2 Apr 2020, at 12:17, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/04/2020 5:58 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>>> New thread :-)-O
>>> I am wondering if I should not try to figure out how automate this.
>>> Is there a way of (only) listing all user installed (additional)
>>> packages, ie not the ones that come with R?
>
> I had something similar in mind - here is my repo which collects ides
> (no code yet) https://github.com/rkrug/install
>
> If you are interested, we could get this going.
>
> If I understand correctly, this would be very useful in many cases.
>
>>
>> Look at the "Priority" column in installed.packages(). "base" is
>> part of R, "recommended" is normally distributed with R.
>> "recommended" packages can be updated after R is installed, "base"
>> packages can't.
>
> That is a good idea. We should take this forward.
>
>>
>> If you just copy all the packages to the new library that aren't
>> already there, and run update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) R will
>> re-install everything that was originally installed under an earlier
>> version.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
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