>>>>> "MM" == Martin Maechler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Thu, 21 Aug 2008 09:39:13 +0200 writes:
[...............] MM> Note that --- thanks to Kate Mullen's nice help.request() proposal --- oops!! s/Kate Mullen/Heather Turner/ both very fine ladies, both in the program committee of useR!2008, .... but I do need to apologize here : S.O.R.R.Y... Martin MM> one of my top "TODOs" for R-devel is MM> to finish a generalization of the current MM> update.packages() MM> function (that I have not quite finished) MM> which will allow to only look for updates of specified set of MM> packages rather than all packages in a given lib.loc MM> {something that should *not* be triggered by a help.request() MM> for a user (as ours) who has ~ 2000 R packages installed}. ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel