[R] Any interim update for the basic packages distributed with R?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is what the R-patched and R-devel versions of R are for.  Please 
see the R FAQ.

Much of the base package is implemented by the compiled code in the R 
executable/DLL.

update.packages() can only update packages on the selected 
repositories.  The standard packages are never there.  Updates to the 
recommended packages which are part of the tarballs may or may not be: 
for example at the moment there are several updates which are only 
available as part of R-devel snapshots.

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, jeanneyue wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I notice that there are 12 basic packages distributed with R. I was told
> that the "base" package will not be updated because it comes a specific
> version of R even if I run update.packages(). Is it true? Will the rest of
> the basic packages be updated? Your help is greatly appreciate.
>
> Thx,
> Jeanne

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