I'm failing to update ggplot2, any suggestions please?!

[andresrcs]

RStudio is an Integrated Development Environment for working with R but they are two independent pieces of software, so installing the latest version of RStudio doesn't mean that you have the latest version of R, maybe this will clarify things for you

Differentiating R from RStudio

Aside: goals for this thread

I'm hoping this will help people disambiguate R from RStudio, and also help with getting questions in the right category. This is a bit of a mashup of the times I've tried to explain this in individual threads, so please feel free to add to this topic for further clarification/point out corrections, etc.

Before putting a code-related question in the #rstudio-ide category or using the rstudio tag, it's helpful to ask yourself: Does this work in the regular R GUI, but not when you're in RStudio? If you're using RStudio, you're using R — RStudio is just an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) in which you are using the R language. (On of my favourite fi…

[Whittocks]

Got it! So I can work in R rather than R Studio to make a ternary plot and see how some data from my archaeological quarry site turns out.

[andresrcs]

@Whittocks

I can work in R rather than R Studio

Yes, you can, but I see no reason to do it, using R through RStudio is much easier and convenient.

Yarnabrina's advice about updating R is just to save you further problems when installing or updating packages.

[Whittocks]

Oh I see. So...I know the version of R Studio that I'm using is up to date, what should I do to ensure that I update R?

[andresrcs]

Download and install the latest version from CRAN

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/macosx/

[Whittocks]

Thanks for the link. I will also look for other answers to this question to see if there is anything I need to be aware of.