Re: [R] a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?

2010-09-17 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Yihui Xie wrote: > Hi all, > > We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but > is there a way to check updates of R itself? "go to R homepage" is a > way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. > > I'm not sure about the "reliable" plac

[R] a reliable way to check the latest version of R on CRAN?

2010-09-16 Thread Yihui Xie
Hi all, We know old.packages() can check for updates of add-on packages, but is there a way to check updates of R itself? "go to R homepage" is a way, of course, but I hope this can be done by R. I'm not sure about the "reliable" place to check; here is a simple example to check from one of the C