G'day Philipp, On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:59:17 +0100 gernophil--- via R-help <r-help@r-project.org> wrote:
> this question is related to this > (https://community.rstudio.com/t/packages-are-not-updating/166214/3), > [...] > To sum it up: If I am updating packages (be it via Bioconductor or > CRAN) some packages simply don’t update, [...] > I would expect any kind of message that the package will not be > updated, since no newer binary is available or a prompt, if I want to > compile from source. RStudio is doing its own thing for some task, including 'install.packages()' (and for some reasons, at least on the platforms on which I use RStudio, RStudio calls 'install.packages()' and not 'update.packages()' when an update is requested via the GUI). See: RStudio> install.packages function (...) .rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...) <environment: 0x55bab9293998> compared to: R> install.packages function (pkgs, lib, repos = getOption("repos"), contriburl = contrib.url(repos, type), method, available = NULL, destdir = NULL, dependencies = NA, type = getOption("pkgType"), configure.args = getOption("configure.args"), configure.vars = getOption("configure.vars"), clean = FALSE, Ncpus = getOption("Ncpus", 1L), verbose = getOption("verbose"), libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts, quiet = FALSE, keep_outputs = FALSE, ...) { [...] So if you use Install/Update in the Packages tab of RStudio and do not experience the behaviour you are expecting, it is something that you need to discuss with Posit, not with R. :) > However, the only message I get is: > ``` > trying URL '<url_to_package>' The package name has the version number encoded in it, so theoretical you should be able to tell at this point whether the package that is downloaded is the version that is already installed, hence no update will happen. Best wishes, Berwin ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
