Hello David,

I am not sure I understood your question.

Are you asking what are the packages that the R release comes with?
Or are you asking what recommended packages one should have when installing
R?  (There is a good list to start with
here<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/54763/what-r-package-do-you-use-most>
)

Also, are you asking how to not need to install new packages when upgrading
R?
(For that, you can have a look at a post I wrote on an alternative way for
upgrading R on windows<http://www.r-statistics.com/2010/04/changing-your-r-upgrading-strategy-and-the-r-code-to-do-it-on-windows/>,
which might give relevant ideas for your case as well)


Best,
Tal


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On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kirkby@onetel.net>wrote:

> R 2.10.1 is used in the Sage maths project. Several recommended packages
> (Matrix, class, mgcv, nnet, rpart, spatial, and survival) are failing to
> build on Solaris 10 (SPARC).
>
> We would like to be able to get a list of the recommended packages for R
> 2.10.1, but ideally via a call to R, so it is not necessary to update that
> list every time a new version of R is released. We do not want to access the
> Internet to get this information.
>
> Is there a way in R to list the recommended packages?
>
> Better still, is there a way to list the recommended packages which have
> not been installed, so getting a list of any failures?
>
> Dave
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