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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 =

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

Hi CentOS folk, In an RPM post-install script, is it possible to know the previous version number, and the new version number of a package if it's an update? I need to know this, because for a certain package, if updating from version 1.x to 2.x, I need to run a program to convert the config file of the package from version 1.x format to version 2.x format. I've looked at SPEC file