On Sun, 26 Apr 2020, Bert Gunter wrote:
?install.packages (argument dependencies)
which is explicitly pointed to by ?update.packages
"Warning
Take care when using dependencies (passed to install.packages) with
update.packages, for it is unclear where new dependencies should be
installed. The current implementation will only allow it if all the
packages to be updated are in a single library, when that library will
be used. "
Bert,
Thank you. I'll read both help pages to better understand applying them to
unknown dependencies. Here, they're all in one library as I'm the only user.
Regards,
Rich
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