If the currently installed R version is up to date, this function will return FALSE and end. In general, the ‘updateR’ function will perform the following steps: Next, let’s run the function and update R. To install the newest stable version of the package:

You can also run install.Rtools() to install the newest compatible version of Rtools automatically. For example, you can run ‘updateR()’ to fetch the newest R version. When using this package, the software installation is initiated through a GUI.

Pandoc: convert between numerous markup and word processing formats (HTML, LaTeX, Word docx, and PDF).

RTools: programs for building R packages from source.

Git: a version control system for source code management.

Install all relevant software for R development, including:.

Upgrade R (on Windows) by running a simple function.The installr package provides R functions for installing and updating software, and mostly focuses on R itself. Currently, this package only supports Windows OS, and we expect with the next update it will support Mac OS too. This blog post introduces the installr package to automate the above mentioned process of updating R on Windows with a simple ‘updateR()’ command, which also takes care of the old version R packages without extra effort. After installing the new version, you also need to install all required packages again with the new version R and choose to delete the old library if you no longer need it. Most users might go to the R Archive Network to download the up-to-date R version and install it. There are different ways of upgrading R as specified in the R Official guidelines. It is also an open-source program that requires regular updates to stay functionally up-to-date. R is a powerful statistical/data science programming language.

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