Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> To: "Sebastien Bihorel" <sebastien.biho...@cognigencorp.com>, r-help@r-project.org Sent: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 7:29:50 PM Subject: Re: [R] Can one perform a dry run of a package installation?
On 09/04/2019 5:46 p.m., Sebastien Bihorel wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to do a dry run of install.packages() or update.packages() to > simulate how an R environment would be modified by the installation or update > of a particular set of packages (with their dependencies)? > > I am particularly interested in finding how dependencies would be recursively > updated to newer versions. Set the `lib` parameter of `install.packages` to an empty directory, and see what gets installed there. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ 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.
