I expect "new.packages()" to not report on packages which I've installed, as per documentation.
best, -tony On 10/4/05, Prof Brian Ripley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hard to know what you expect here. There is no recent change that I can > see. > > I removed ash and then installed it with version. new.packages() showed > it as new in both 2.1.1 and 2.2.0-beta. > > The issue is that installed.packages() has never been taught about > versioned installs, and you might like to take that up with your BioC > colleagues who added the idea. > > On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote: > > > In Rdevel, SVN version built this morning around 10am central european > > time, it looks like > > > > install.packages(new.packages(),installWithVers=TRUE) > > > > seem to ignore the version information -- that is, it reinstalls > > current versions of packages. > > I believe it always did: it certainly does in 2.1.1 for me. > > > This did not happen before I used "installWithVers=TRUE" option, that is > > I could use > > > > update.packages() > > and > > install.packages(new.packages()) > > > > to keep a current, platform-complete, installed base of CRAN. > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 > -- best, -tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] Muttenz, Switzerland. "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05). ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
