R help - Mar 2005 - Tool for update

Hi,

Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package
available? I look for things alike YUM for linux?

YD

Are you talking about something other than 'update.packages'?

as the help notes 

Description:

     These functions can be used to automatically compare the version
     numbers of installed packages with the newest available version on
     CRAN and update outdated packages on the fly.
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> Hi,
> 
> Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package
> available? I look for things alike YUM for linux?
> 
> YD
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Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 23. M?rz 2005 06:12 schrieb Yuandan Zhang:
> Hi,
>
> Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package
> available? I look for things alike YUM for linux?
Start "R --no-save" on a  root console and launch
"update.packages()"
from within R-Enviroment.
Surely, this is not like YUM but does a supherb job.


Thomas

If you're talking about R itself, I believe the answer is "no". 
However,
the release schedule for R is rather predictable (two major releases per
year, one in Spring and another in Fall, with patch releases in between as
needed), so the need is not that great, IMHO.  

Andy
> From: Yuandan Zhang
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package
> available? I look for things alike YUM for linux?
> 
> YD
> 
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>

Is there a way to set a cron job to automatically update packages?
Maybe something like this:

$unixprompt> R --vanilla update.packages()

Alternately, is it possible to use the RSPython plugin to create a
cron job.  Effectively calling R and update.packages() from a python
script?

Best, Darren


On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:12:52 +1100, Yuandan Zhang
<yzhang4 at turing.une.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there any tool to check if there is update version of a package
> available? I look for things alike YUM for linux?
> 
> YD
> 
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Darren Weber wrote:
> Is there a way to set a cron job to automatically update packages?
> Maybe something like this:
>
> $unixprompt> R --vanilla update.packages()
>
If you put
update.packages(repos="http://cran.us.r-project.org", ask=FALSE)

in a file update.R you can do
   R CMD BATCH update.R update.log
or even fancier, something like
   R CMD BATCH update.R update-`date --iso-8601`.log

to keep dated log files.

 	-thomas