On 14/02/2024 5:50 a.m., Martin Maechler wrote:
Berwin A Turlach on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:47:41 +0800 writes: Berwin A Turlach on Wed, 14 Feb 2024 11:47:41 +0800 writes:> G'day Philipp, > On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 09:59:17 +0100 gernophil--- via R-help > <r-help@r-project.org> wrote: >> this question is related to this >> (https://community.rstudio.com/t/packages-are-not-updating/166214/3), >> [...] >> To sum it up: If I am updating packages (be it via >> Bioconductor or CRAN) some packages simply don’t update, >> [...] >> I would expect any kind of message that the package will >> not be updated, since no newer binary is available or a >> prompt, if I want to compile from source. > RStudio is doing its own thing for some task, including > 'install.packages()' (and for some reasons, at least on > the platforms on which I use RStudio, RStudio calls > 'install.packages()' and not 'update.packages()' when an > update is requested via the GUI). See: RStudio> install.packages > function (...) .rs.callAs(name, hook, original, ...) > <environment: 0x55bab9293998> > compared to: R> install.packages > function (pkgs, lib, repos = getOption("repos"), > contriburl = contrib.url(repos, type), method, available = > NULL, destdir = NULL, dependencies = NA, type = > getOption("pkgType"), configure.args = > getOption("configure.args"), configure.vars = > getOption("configure.vars"), clean = FALSE, Ncpus = > getOption("Ncpus", 1L), verbose = getOption("verbose"), > libs_only = FALSE, INSTALL_opts, quiet = FALSE, > keep_outputs = FALSE, ...) { [...] > So if you use Install/Update in the Packages tab of > RStudio and do not experience the behaviour you are > expecting, it is something that you need to discuss with > Posit, not with R. :) >> However, the only message I get is: ``` trying URL >> '<url_to_package>' > The package name has the version number encoded in it, so > theoretical you should be able to tell at this point > whether the package that is downloaded is the version that > is already installed, hence no update will happen. > Best wishes, > Berwin Yes, thank's a lot, Berwin. Indeed I've raised the fact that RStudio hides R's own install.packages() from the user and uses its own, undocumented one ... this has been the case for quite a few years. I found out during teaching --- one of the few times, I use RStudio to use R... in another case where RStudio's install.packages() behaved differently than R's. I'm pretty sure this is reason for quite a bit of confusion...
Did they ignore your bug report? 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.
