Rainer, I am definitively interested.
But, as a disclaimer, I am an elderly Gynecologist only dabbling in R and a little in Perl :-)-O. el On 02/04/2020 12:43, Rainer M Krug wrote: > > >> On 2 Apr 2020, at 12:17, Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 02/04/2020 5:58 a.m., Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: >>> New thread :-)-O >>> I am wondering if I should not try to figure out how automate this. >>> Is there a way of (only) listing all user installed (additional) >>> packages, ie not the ones that come with R? > > I had something similar in mind - here is my repo which collects ides > (no code yet) https://github.com/rkrug/install > > If you are interested, we could get this going. > > If I understand correctly, this would be very useful in many cases. > >> >> Look at the "Priority" column in installed.packages(). "base" is >> part of R, "recommended" is normally distributed with R. >> "recommended" packages can be updated after R is installed, "base" >> packages can't. > > That is a good idea. We should take this forward. > >> >> If you just copy all the packages to the new library that aren't >> already there, and run update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) R will >> re-install everything that was originally installed under an earlier >> version. > > > Cheers, > > Rainer [...] -- Dr. Eberhard W. Lisse \ / Obstetrician & Gynaecologist e...@lisse.na / * | Telephone: +264 81 124 6733 (cell) PO Box 8421 \ / If this email is signed with GPG/PGP Bachbrecht 10007, Namibia ;____/ Section 20 of Act No. 4 of 2019 may apply _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac