[Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages() badly?

[A.J. Rossini]

I expect "new.packages()" to not report on packages which I've
installed, as per documentation.

best,
-tony

On 10/4/05, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hard to know what you expect here.  There is no recent change that I can
> see.
>
> I removed ash and then installed it with version.  new.packages() showed
> it as new in both 2.1.1 and 2.2.0-beta.
>
> The issue is that installed.packages() has never been taught about
> versioned installs, and you might like to take that up with your BioC
> colleagues who added the idea.
>
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:
>
> > In Rdevel, SVN version built this morning around 10am central european
> > time, it looks like
> >
> >   install.packages(new.packages(),installWithVers=TRUE)
> >
> > seem to ignore the version information -- that is, it reinstalls
> > current versions of packages.
>
> I believe it always did: it certainly does in 2.1.1 for me.
>
> > This did not happen before I used "installWithVers=TRUE" option, that is
> > I could use
> >
> >   update.packages()
> > and
> >   install.packages(new.packages())
> >
> > to keep a current, platform-complete, installed base of CRAN.
>
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-tony

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