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[Dr Eberhard W Lisse]

Rainer,

I am definitively interested.

But, as a disclaimer, I am an elderly Gynecologist only dabbling in R
and a little in Perl :-)-O. 

el

On 02/04/2020 12:43, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 2 Apr 2020, at 12:17, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> 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?
> 
> I had something similar in mind - here is my repo which collects ides
> (no code yet) https://github.com/rkrug/install
> 
> If you are interested, we could get this going.
> 
> If I understand correctly, this would be very useful in many cases.
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> That is a good idea.  We should take this forward.
> 
>>
>> 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.
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Rainer
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