On Fri, 31 May 2013 18:10:19 -0500 Robert Baer <rb...@atsu.edu> wrote:

> On 5/31/2013 11:59 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > I suspect you may be missing a c()?
> >
> > On Fri, 31 May 2013 06:05:45 -0800 John Kane <jrkrid...@inbox.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> paks  <-  install.packages( "Hmisc", "plyr")
> > paks <- install.packages( c("Hmisc", "plyr"))
> >
> >     
> >>    install.packages(paks)
> >> You can use the command  library()  to get a list of what is installed on 
> >> your machine.
> > Is it possible to get this as a vector of only the package names, or
> > is post-processing the output of library() the only way out?
> Do you mean something like:
> paks = library()$results[,1]
> save(paks, file = 'paks.RData')
> Rob

Exactly! Then

install.packages(library()$results[,1])

does all the updated installs in one shot.

Thanks!
Ranjan

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