Re: [Rd] install.packages(): About an option for installing archived versions

2020-06-06 Thread Patrick Schratz
re are our arguments". I am sure many people have had this thought/idea already and weren't self confident enough to ask/discuss this. Thanks for your reply again, appreciated. Maybe the discussion can go on a bit, shining a bit more light on this issue. Patrick On 6 Jun 2020, at 15:

[Rd] install.packages(): About an option for installing archived versions

2020-06-06 Thread Patrick Schratz
Dear list, Various helpers exist in the wild to install older archived versions of CRAN packages, for example `remotes::install_version() ` or `versions::install.version()`. The former makes use of an “archive.rds” file stored in the CRAN /Meta directory: https://github.com/r-lib/remotes/blob/