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February 9, 2011 04:25
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check the version of R on CRAN
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| x = readLines("http://cran.r-project.org/sources.html") | |
| # the version number is in the next line of 'The latest release' | |
| rls = x[grep("latest release", x) + 1L] | |
| newver = gsub("(.*R-|\\.tar\\.gz.*)", "", rls) | |
| oldver = paste(getRversion(), collapse = ".") | |
| # new version available? | |
| compareVersion(newver, oldver) == 1L |
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