[Rd] Option "installWithVers" seems to impact new.packages() badly?

[Prof Brian Ripley]

Hard to know what you expect here.  There is no recent change that I can 
see.

I removed ash and then installed it with version.  new.packages() showed 
it as new in both 2.1.1 and 2.2.0-beta.

The issue is that installed.packages() has never been taught about 
versioned installs, and you might like to take that up with your BioC 
colleagues who added the idea.

On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, A.J. Rossini wrote:

> In Rdevel, SVN version built this morning around 10am central european
> time, it looks like
>
>   install.packages(new.packages(),installWithVers=TRUE)
>
> seem to ignore the version information -- that is, it reinstalls
> current versions of packages.

I believe it always did: it certainly does in 2.1.1 for me.

> This did not happen before I used "installWithVers=TRUE" option, that is
> I could use
>
>   update.packages()
> and
>   install.packages(new.packages())
>
> to keep a current, platform-complete, installed base of CRAN.

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