[R] How to use available.packages

Uwe Ligges
2007-09-13T15:16:03Z

A Lenzo wrote:
> Hello R gurus,
>
> Until recently, I used the following commands to update R:
>
> options(CRAN = "http://cran.stat.ucla.edu")
> install.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1])
>
> But now I am told that install.packages is deprecated and that I should use
> available.packages

No, it tells you that
   'CRAN.packages' is deprecated.

Do you really want to install all packages?
If so, see ?available.packages and use that one instaed of CRAN.packages
... It is more meaningful, because there are other repositories than
CRAN around, one of them BioConductor, for example.

Uwe Ligges



> Can anyone tell me what the corresponding commands are when using
> available.packages?
>
> Thank you for your time.
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