[R] Installing packages into updated R

[Prof Brian Ripley]

This is one reason we normally recommend that you install into a separate 
library.  Then update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE) is all that is needed.
However,

> foo <- installed.packages()
> as.vector(foo[is.na(foo[, "Priority"]), 1])

will give you a character vector which you can feed to install.packages(), 
so it's not complex to do manually.

On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Michael H. Prager wrote:

> A minor inconvenience in updating an R installation is remembering which
> packages were installed previously.  Has anyone written a script to
> inspect a previous installation, then get & install the same packages
> into the new installation?

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