[Rd] Check for updates under Windows (Was: a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?)

[Barry Rowlingson]

On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Yihui Xie <xie at yihui.name> wrote:
> 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 Windows). Note all users really have to update
> R, but we should make it clearer to them that new versions are
> available. Yes, they can go to R homepage to check by themselves, but
> my experience tells me it is rarely the case. Therefore, I wish RGui
> could gain a new menu to check for updates of R. Thanks very much!

Something like this:

 winMenuAdd("Updates"); winMenuAddItem("Updates","R
Version","require(gtools);checkRVersion()")

Barry