[R] Updating github R packages

Hadley Wickham h.wickham at gmail.com
Wed Feb 17 10:25:11 CET 2016


It will be included in the next version of devtools - it's totally
do-able, but no one has done it yet.

Hadley

On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> AFAIK the answer is no. That would be one of the main drawbacks of depending on github for packages. It isn't really a package repository so much as it is a herd of cats.
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> On February 16, 2016 6:43:02 PM PST, "Hoji, Akihiko" <akh22 at pitt.edu> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>Is there a way to update a R package and its dependencies,  installed
>>from the github repo by a simple command equivalent to
>>“update_packages()”?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
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