[R-SIG-Mac] Homebrew

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 02/04/2020 5:58 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> New thread :-)-O
> 
> I am wondering if I should not try to figure out how automate this.
> 
> Is there a way of (only) listing all user installed (additional)
> packages, ie not the ones that come with R?

Look at the "Priority" column in installed.packages().  "base" is part 
of R, "recommended" is normally distributed with R. "recommended" 
packages can be updated after R is installed, "base" packages can't.

If you just copy all the packages to the new library that aren't already 
there, and run update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) R will re-install 
everything that was originally installed under an earlier version.

Duncan Murdoch
> 
> I could then construct the below file automagically, and if I was
> really bothered and bored find out how to make Homebrew pre/post
> install scripts to automate this :-)-O
> 
> And, for the record, other than that, I can only recall one serious
> issue, when the openblas library got lost recently which was however
> fixed quite quickly.
> 
> 
> greetings, el
> 
> On 02/04/2020 10:17, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>>
>> I do same, including Rstudio (Cask).
>>
>> Once in a while after major updates I need to reinstall all my extra
>> packages, so I have written me a little script along the lines of
>>
>> 	#!/usr/local/bin/Rscript
>> 	local({
>> 		r <- getOption("repos")
>> 		r["CRAN"] <- "https://cloud.r-project.org/"
>> 		options(repos = r)
>> 	})
>> 	install.packages(c(
>> 		"RMariaDB", "rstudioapi"
>> 	))
>>
>> made it 0755 and can run it from the command line. Put it in my
>> handbook so I don't forget and never looked back.
>>
>>
>> greetings, el
>>
>> On 02/04/2020 10:03 am, Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>> I am using Homebrew on a Mac (two Macs - one at home, one at work)
>>> instead of the official R package, and I did not have any problems
>>> after upgrades - maybe I am lucky, maybe not as picky in defining
>>> “problem”, but my suggestion would be to try R from homebrew to
>>> install R.
>>>
>>> OK - no support from here - I know.
>>>
>>> And homebrew has also binary versions.  What is missing, is a hombrew
>>> R package repository.  Maybe an idea to create one?
>>>
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Rainer
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