如何自动将R更新到最新的修补版本？

Question

有什么方法可以每天或以预定的间隔自动将Mac OS X上的R更新到最新的修补版本（R-Patched）？

Answer 1

My impression is that compiling from source is the most (only?) reliable way to get the most recent patched version, but I could be wrong about this. A simple shell script to download the latest patched version and recompile would be:

curl -o /tmp/R-patched.tar.gz ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/R-patched.tar.gz
tar xzvf /tmp/R-patched.tar.gz
cd /tmp/R-patched
./configure
make
cp bin/R <old_R_binary_location>

You could then use crontab to run this at regular intervals. I don't find the crontab man page to be very helpful, so I always end up referring back to guides such as this one .

Answer 2

I have a bash script that installs the daily patched build from http://r.research.att.com . Installed libraries remain untouched, except for those in core.

I update manually, but you could set up a cron job as @bnaul suggests. I'm not sure how it will handle the need for sudo'ing, however. You might have to move your R out of /Library/Frameworks and then change the script accordingly.

#!/bin/bash
curl -s http://r.research.att.com/R-2.13-branch-leopard-universal.tar.gz | sudo tar fvxz - -C /