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Fred

06 Aug, 2012 06:11 AM

In "Packages" panel, when I clicked "check for updates", it said "All packages are up to date". However when I checked for updates in the R console itself, there appeared several updates available. Could you please look into it? Thanks

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Josh Paulson on 06 Aug, 2012 08:27 PM

   

   Fred,

   We are just using the old.packages() command from R so this should be returning the same result. Can you take a screenshot showing the difference between the "check for updates" in the packages pane and old.packages() from the console.

   Josh

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2. Josh Paulson closed this discussion on 19 Aug, 2012 12:29 PM.

3. Fred Wu re-opened this discussion on 28 Sep, 2012 03:51 AM

4. 3 Posted by Fred Wu on 28 Sep, 2012 03:51 AM

   

   Hi Josh,

   I saw you closed the problem on the website. However the problem still remains, where RStudio does not detect updates but R does.

   Thanks and Regards

   Fred

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5. Support Staff 4 Posted by Josh Paulson on 28 Sep, 2012 04:12 AM

   

   Fred,

   The discussion was closed due to inactivity (almost 2 weeks). However the original poster (you) can always re-open a thread as you've done here. Also would you be able to tell me the output of the following commands in both RStudio and your other R environment:

   Both RStudio and other R:

   > .libPaths()
   > old.packages()
   

   Just RStudio:

   > .rs.writeableLibraryPaths()
   > utils::old.packages(lib.loc = .rs.writeableLibraryPaths())
   

   Josh

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6. 5 Posted by Fred Wu on 28 Sep, 2012 04:23 AM

   

   Hi Josh,

   I am just going to reply again.
   It seems the problem of the choice of CRAN Mirror.

   In RStudio, I set the CRAN mirror to University of Melbourne and it returned no updates with this mirror in R too.
   However when I chose the mirror of CSIRO, the updates appears in R.

   So it seems not the problem of RStudio.

   Regards

   Fred

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7. Support Staff 6 Posted by Josh Paulson on 28 Sep, 2012 05:01 AM

   

   Fred,

   Thanks for the heads up and good to know. Best of luck sorting it out.

   Josh

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8. Josh Paulson closed this discussion on 04 Oct, 2012 01:05 PM.

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