[R] installing packages from CRAN, is this approach stupid?

[A.J. Rossini]

In order to quickly install lots ("all") of CRAN packages on a nice
new machine here, I did the following:

        install.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1])

1. Is this sensible (other than the obvious, "who needs everything"?)
2. Should this be made easier to do (added as a possible option)?

best,
-tony

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