How can I get a dataframe of all the packages that have a more recent version in CRAN? For example:
df <- check_outdated_packages() # please create this function
>df
package installed_version latest_cran_version
<char> <char> <char>
1: reactable 0.3.0 0.4.4
?old.packages says:
‘old.packages’ indicates packages which have a (suitable) later version on the repositories whereas ‘update.packages’ offers to download and install such packages.
it returns:
‘NULL’ or a matrix with one row per package, row names the package names and column names ‘"Package"’, ‘"LibPath"’, ‘"Installed"’ (the version), ‘"Built"’ (the version built under), ‘"ReposVer"’ and ‘"Repository"’.
On my system right now:
Package LibPath Installed Built ReposVer
admisc "admisc" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "0.31" "4.3.0" "0.32"
clock "clock" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "0.6.1" "4.3.0" "0.7.0"
markdown "markdown" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "1.6" "4.4.0" "1.7"
rticles "rticles" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "0.24" "4.3.0" "0.25"
MASS "MASS" "/usr/local/lib/R/library" "7.3-59" "4.4.0" "7.3-60"
Repository
admisc "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib"
clock "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib"
markdown "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib"
rticles "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib"
MASS "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib"
(I thought I remembered this existed: I did apropos("package") to find it.)
