Tal Galili wrote: > > Hello dear R developers, > > I recently found out that it is not possible to limit update.packages() to > update only a few packages at a time. > > The patch offered simply adds a 'subset' parameter and the statement > bounded > within "if(!missing(subset))" to implement it. > The code is pasted bellow (and also attached as an .r file). > > Might this patch be considered valuable to be added to R? > > > (in the code bellow I called the function "update.packages.2" so to not > mask > the original update.packages) > > > With much respect, > Tal >
Hi Tal, I think if you pass a character vector in the `oldPkgs` argument of update.packages, it will only consider packages in that list for updating. -Charlie ----- Charlie Sharpsteen Undergraduate-- Environmental Resources Engineering Humboldt State University -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Patching-update-packages-to-enable-updating-of-only-a-user-defined-subset-of-packages-tp3456738p3463670.html Sent from the R devel mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
