This is what the R-patched and R-devel versions of R are for. Please
see the R FAQ.
Much of the base package is implemented by the compiled code in the R
executable/DLL.
update.packages() can only update packages on the selected
repositories. The standard packages are never there. Updates to the
recommended packages which are part of the tarballs may or may not be:
for example at the moment there are several updates which are only
available as part of R-devel snapshots.
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, jeanneyue wrote:
Hi,
I notice that there are 12 basic packages distributed with R. I was told
that the "base" package will not be updated because it comes a specific
version of R even if I run update.packages(). Is it true? Will the rest of
the basic packages be updated? Your help is greatly appreciate.
Thx,
Jeanne
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