Yes, that's more or less what I mean. Thanks! Maybe this functionality can be added to src/gnuwin32/rui.c
Regards, Yihui -- Yihui Xie <xieyi...@gmail.com> Phone: 515-294-2465 Web: http://yihui.name Department of Statistics, Iowa State University 2215 Snedecor Hall, Ames, IA On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 6:54 AM, Barry Rowlingson <b.rowling...@lancaster.ac.uk> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Yihui Xie <x...@yihui.name> wrote: >> Dear R developers, >> >> I asked this question in r-help list but have not got a definite >> solution yet, and I think it might be more appropriate to ask >> developers or CRAN maintainers directly. Many software packages often >> have a menu item like "Check for updates" under the "Help" menu, e.g. >> Filezilla and Firefox, and I believe it is also necessary for R (at >> least for R GUI under Windows). Note all users really have to update >> R, but we should make it clearer to them that new versions are >> available. Yes, they can go to R homepage to check by themselves, but >> my experience tells me it is rarely the case. Therefore, I wish RGui >> could gain a new menu to check for updates of R. Thanks very much! > > Something like this: > > winMenuAdd("Updates"); winMenuAddItem("Updates","R > Version","require(gtools);checkRVersion()") > > Barry > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
