[R] Automating package updates after major version change

[Sarah Goslee]

Not so coincidentally, I just worked thru this for myself.

I did want to rebuild and reinstall everything, but as automatically
as possible, although in a way that let me see what happened and what
went wrong.

http://numberwright.com/2020/04/clean-and-new/

There are several things to consider: CRAN packages (easy), GitHub
packages (less easy), and random other packages (require manual
intervention).

I'm sure there are other possible workflows.

Sarah

On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 12:00 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> After upgrading from -3.6.2 to -4.0.0 I ran 'update.packages()' and spent
> time rebuilding dependencies, too. Is there a script or method that
> automates package updates after a major version change in R?
>
> My web searches on this topic found tips for only regular package updates
> without rebuilding multiple dependencies.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>


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