Re: [R] a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Yihui Xie x...@yihui.name wrote: Hi all, We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but is there a way to check updates of R itself? go to R homepage is a way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. I'm not sure about the reliable

[R] a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?

Hi all, We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but is there a way to check updates of R itself? go to R homepage is a way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. I'm not sure about the reliable place to check; here is a simple example to check from one of the CRAN