pkg_functions

[jimhester]

• pkg_install(“sf”) # install from cran without prefix
• local_pkg_install() - pkgdepends does not currently work with directories. pkginstall does, but we need to also query / install the dependencies.
• local_pkg_install_deps()
• local_pkg_install_dev_deps()
• pkg_update() # default updates all packages
• pkg_remove()
• pkg_status()

[Breza]

I'm really interested in seeing pkg_update() become a reality. Multithreading when installing packages is nice, but it would really be a gamechanger when updating dozens of packages at once.

[jimhester]

@Breza assuming you are only updating packages from CRAN you can already do this with update.packages(Ncpus = 8) to update e.g. 8 packages in parallel. Or set option(Ncpus = XYZ) to do it by default.

Bump on this to know: is anyone working on the pkg_update() functionality yet?

[rossellhayes]

Can pkg_update() be implemented as pkg_install(rownames(utils::old.packages()))?

[gaborcsardi]

@rossellhayes Only if all your installed packages are available on CRAN/Bioc and your configured repos. If you have other package sources, then it gets more difficult. Updating the whole library is not a trivial operation.

[rossellhayes]

I hadn't considered that, thank you for explaining!

[gaborcsardi]

#289 has pkg_upgrade(), which upgrades one package and its dependencies.