search for: checkrversion

Hi all, We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but is there a way to check updates of R itself? "go to R homepage" is a way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. I'm not sure about the "reliable" place to check; here is a simple example to check from one of the CRAN webpages (kind of nasty approach...): x =

..."Rsqu") 5.when I try to check what's in the package "gtools", I get (hier.part is not included): > gtools:: <TAB> gtools::addLast gtools::ask gtools::assert gtools::binsearch gtools::capture gtools::checkRVersion gtools::combinations gtools::ddirichlet gtools::defmacro gtools::even gtools::foldchange gtools::foldchange2logratio gtools::inv.logit gtools::invalid gtools::keywords gtools::logit gtools::l...

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

...vision 38996) +++ src/library/utils/R/packages.R (working copy) @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ available.packages <- - function(contriburl = contrib.url(getOption("repos")), method) + function(contriburl = contrib.url(getOption("repos")), method, + fields = NULL) { .checkRversion <- function(x) { if(is.na(xx <- x["Depends"])) return(TRUE) @@ -9,10 +10,14 @@ else TRUE } - flds <- c("Package", "Version", "Priority", "Bundle", - "Depends", "Imports", "Su...