I suppose it is too late to change the name but checkBuilt does not
immediately clarify to me what it does. It does not check whether I have
built a package for instance. Having read Duncan's post at least I now
know that I should set it as TRUE until the default is changed.
Michael
On 24/02/
The checkBuilt argument to update.packages() currently defaults to
FALSE. This means that packages built and installed under R 3.6.2 will
not be updated by R 4.0.0, and leads to confusion (e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/q/60356442/2554330, where tidyverse can't be
updated because some of its m