On 02.04.2024 14:07, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
On 1 April 2024 at 17:44, Uwe Ligges wrote: | Untested: | | install.packages() calls available.packages() to find out which packages | are available - and passes a "filters" argument if supplied. | That can be a user defined filter. It should be possible to write a user | defined filter which prefers the packages in your local repo. Intriguing. Presumably that would work for update.packages() too?
Yes. I think so. Best, Uwe
(We actually have a use case at work, and as one way out I created another side-repo to place a package with an incremented version number so it would 'win' on hightest version; this is due to some non-trivial issues with the underlying dependencies.) Dirk
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