[R] How are packages installed with install_github() updated in RStudio?

[John Kane]

Thanks Hadley

I had some vague impression that RStudio was maintaining a slightly diffferent repository thought I am not sure why I thought that.
John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: h.wickham at gmail.com
> Sent: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 09:01:09 -0500
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] How are packages installed with install_github() updated
> in RStudio?
> 
> RStudio just calls the same underlying R functions, so it doesn't make
> any difference that you're using RStudio.  Currently, there's no
> automatic way to update packages installed from github.
> 
> Hadley
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:14 AM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>> 
>> Because RStudio seems to use its own method of updating you might be
>> better off asking in their forum.
>> 
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: prgosek at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 10:43:20 +0200
>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>> Subject: [R] How are packages installed with install_github() updated
>>> in
>>> RStudio?
>>> 
>>> Hallo.
>>> 
>>> I use RStudio. Because of a bug in the latest CRAN version of dplyr, I
>>> installed the GitHub version with install_github(). Now I wonder what
>>> happens when there is a new version. Does RStudio update the packages
>>> installed from GitHub? If so, does it replace it with the new CRAN
>>> version,
>>> or a new GitHub version?
>>> 
>>> Many thanks for you answer,
>>> Michal Kvasnicka
>>> 
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