tl;dr
If you are running R on Windows you can easily upgrade to the latest version of R using the installr package. Simply run the following code:
# installing/loading the latest installr package:
install.packages("installr"); library(installr) # install+load installr
updateR() # updating R.Running “updateR()” will detect if there is a new R version available, and if so it will download+install it (etc.). just press “next”, “OK”, and “Yes” on everything…
A GUI interface to updating R on Windows
Starting from installr version 0.15.0, the upgradingprocess can be done with a click-on-menus GUI interface. Here is how to use it.
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