[R] FInd packages in need of Update (like RStudio)

[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Thanks,

	update.packages(dependencies = TRUE, ask=FALSE)

does what I want.

greetings, el

On 2020-12-23 17:30 , Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:09 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el using lisse.na> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anyone know how one would look which packages require an update
>> (like the Tools -> Update Packages) but can do it from R (ie Rscript) or
>> any other way from the command line (on the MAc)
> 
> ? old.packages
> 
> Best,
> -Deepayan
> 
>> I would like to build this into my update script which currently does
>> brew, cpan and pip3 :-)-O
>>
>> greetings, el
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