R: Package Management Tools

packageStatus {utils}

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Package Management Tools

Description

Summarize information about installed packages and packages available at various repositories, and automatically upgrade outdated packages.

Usage

packageStatus(lib.loc = NULL, repositories = NULL, method,
              type = getOption("pkgType"), ...)

## S3 method for class 'packageStatus'
summary(object, ...)

## S3 method for class 'packageStatus'
update(object, lib.loc = levels(object$inst$LibPath),
       repositories = levels(object$avail$Repository), ...)

## S3 method for class 'packageStatus'
upgrade(object, ask = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

`lib.loc`	a character vector describing the location of R library trees to search through, or `NULL`. The default value of `NULL` corresponds to all libraries currently known.
`repositories`	a character vector of URLs describing the location of R package repositories on the Internet or on the local machine. These should be full paths to the appropriate ‘contrib’ sections of the repositories. The default (`NULL`) derives URLs from option `"repos"` and `type`.
`method`	download method, see `download.file`.
`type`	type of package distribution: see `install.packages`.
`object`	an object of class `"packageStatus"` as returned by `packageStatus`.
`ask`	if `TRUE`, the user is prompted which packages should be upgraded and which not.
`...`	for `packageStatus`: arguments to be passed to `available.packages` and `installed.packages`. for the `upgrade` method, arguments to be passed to `install.packages` for other methods: currently not used.

Details

There are print and summary methods for the "packageStatus" objects: the print method gives a brief tabular summary and the summary method prints the results.

The update method updates the "packageStatus" object. The upgrade method is similar to update.packages: it offers to install the current versions of those packages which are not currently up-to-date.

Value

An object of class "packageStatus". This is a list with two components

`inst`	a data frame with columns as the matrix returned by `installed.packages` plus `"Status"`, a factor with levels `c("ok", "upgrade", "unavailable")`. Only the newest version of each package is reported, in the first repository in which it appears.
`avail`	a data frame with columns as the matrix returned by `available.packages` plus `"Status"`, a factor with levels `c("installed", "not installed")`.

For the summary method the result is also of class "summary.packageStatus" with additional components

`Libs`	a list with one element for each library
`Repos`	a list with one element for each repository

with the elements being lists of character vectors of package name for each status.

Examples


x <- packageStatus(repositories = contrib.url(findCRANmirror("web")))
print(x)
summary(x)

## Not run: 
upgrade(x)
x <- update(x)
print(x)

## End(Not run)

[Package utils version 4.4.1 Index]