In R: How can I know if my packages are up to date ?

Question

Hi all,

I am looking for a function that will tell me, for a list of packages, which of them is up to date and which is not (I need it so to trace back an R crash).

Thanks,

Tal

Answer 1

Well, you could just update them with the update.packages() function.

You could use installed.packages() and available.packages() to find any differences. Just merge the two results together on the name, and then look for version differences.

i <- installed.packages()
a <- available.packages()
ia <- merge(i, a, by="Package")[,c("Package", "Version.x", "Version.y")]
ia[as.character(ia$Version.x) != as.character(ia$Version.y),]