R Tip: Check What Repos You are Using

In a lot of our R writing we casually say “install from CRAN using install.packages('PKGNAME')” or “update your packages by using update.packages(ask = FALSE, checkBuilt = TRUE) (and answering ‘no’ to all questions about compiling).” We recently became aware that for some users this isn’t complete advice. The above depends on your R install pointing … Continue reading R Tip: Check What Repos You are Using