{updateme} modifies library() to tell you if your packages are up to date when
you load them:
You can install {updateme} from CRAN like so:
install.packages("updateme")To use {updateme}, simply call library(updateme) before loading other
packages. You may find you'd like to have {updateme} available all the time;
in this case, consider adding this snippet to your .Rprofile:
if (interactive()) {
suppressMessages(require(updateme))
}By default, new versions of packages will be looked up from the location
where they seem to have been installed from. If you installed from CRAN
(e.g. using install.packages()), {updateme} will check CRAN for a newer
version, and similarly with packages installed from Bioconductor, GitHub, and
GitLab.
Occasionally you may want more control over where {updateme} looks for new
package versions. You can configure this behaviour, including turning {updateme}
off for particular packages, using updateme_sources_set(). If you want to
temporarily disable {updateme} entirely you can do so using updateme_off().
Some caching of downloads is used to make most calls to library() pretty
quick. The cache resets every hour, but you can configure this like so:
# Set the cache expiry time to 30 minutes
options(updateme.cache_expiry = 30)