From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Mon Nov  8 08:08:56 2004
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Mon Nov  8 08:09:05 2004
Subject: [Rd] RFC install.packages() changes
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, Liaw, Andy wrote:

> One thing that concerns me a bit (I haven't check whether the concern is
> warranted) is package dependency:  If the new version of a package on CRAN
> requires, e.g., a newer version of R than what the user has, what happens
> then?

You are not offered a choice of updating.  That needs documenting.

Brian

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[Rd] RFC install.packages() changes
Prof Brian Ripley