[R] FInd packages in need of Update (like RStudio)

[Deepayan Sarkar]

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 8:09 PM Dr Eberhard W Lisse <el using lisse.na> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know how one would look which packages require an update
> (like the Tools -> Update Packages) but can do it from R (ie Rscript) or
> any other way from the command line (on the MAc)

? old.packages

Best,
-Deepayan

> I would like to build this into my update script which currently does
> brew, cpan and pip3 :-)-O
>
> greetings, el
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