[R] Upgrade through the R interface?

[stephen sefick]

I was just curious.  For  a couple of times a year building from the
sources doesn't make this a super high priority for me to write such a
function (assuming I have the skills to do this anyway) as the core
team makes it quite easy to just download whatever I need.
Thanks for all of the help,

Stephen Sefick

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch at stats.uwo.ca> wrote:
> On 3/31/2009 9:37 AM, stephen sefick wrote:
>>
>> Why can we not update R through a update.version() command from within
>> R?  This may be my ignorance about how software distribution works,
>> but I was interested.
>
> Because nobody has contributed such a function.
>
> There are a few tricky issues in writing it:  generally packages need
> updating as well if the X or Y in version X.Y.Z changes, and new updates for
> some may not be available.  As well, on some platforms, files can't be
> replaced while in use; e.g. on Windows, you'd probably need to shut down R
> before it could be replaced.
>
> So I think it could be done on Windows and probably on other platforms too,
> but it would take a fair bit of work to implement.  You just need to find
> someone who has spare time on their hands to do it (or do it yourself, or
> hire someone, ....)
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>



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Stephen Sefick

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annoying little problems of being mammals.

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