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...nce a week it checks for new packages and updates to the current version of the installed packages on CRAN. Sounds simple enough. Plus some general conditioning statements to make sure that this runs only once a week or so the logic I'm following is: myPackages <- installed.packages() CRANsPackages <- CRAN.packages() missingPackages <- CRANsPackages[is.na(match(CRANsPackages[,1], myPackages[,1])),1] install.packages(missingPackages) Now this might be trivial, but, missingPackages includes bundled packages which are already installed (e.g., dse, VR) in addition to those packages th...