
Thank you very much, Professor Ripley.
 


Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:54:38 -0800
From: ml-node+3342906-500442411-213455@n4.nabble.com
To: jeanneyue@hotmail.com
Subject: Re: Any interim update for the basic packages distributed with R?

This is what the R-patched and R-devel versions of R are for.  Please 
see the R FAQ. 

Much of the base package is implemented by the compiled code in the R 
executable/DLL. 

update.packages() can only update packages on the selected 
repositories.  The standard packages are never there.  Updates to the 
recommended packages which are part of the tarballs may or may not be: 
for example at the moment there are several updates which are only 
available as part of R-devel snapshots. 

On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, jeanneyue wrote: 

> Hi, 
> 
> I notice that there are 12 basic packages distributed with R. I was told 
> that the "base" package will not be updated because it comes a specific 
> version of R even if I run update.packages(). Is it true? Will the rest of 
> the basic packages be updated? Your help is greatly appreciate. 
> 
> Thx, 
> Jeanne 

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