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In bash: R -e 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)'

Source: https://community.rstudio.com/t/reinstalling-packages-on-new-version-of…

Even though phantomjs is dead, it is quite useful anyway in a nice Rscript.

Headless Chrome with R Selenium: https://github.com/ropensci/RSelenium/issues/138

You might have a couple of issues with mailR when running on a server.

When installing or after installing the r package: rJava you might encounter the following: libjvm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I fixed this on a ubuntu server with this command: sudo R CMD javareconf
 

How to make a nice time stamp with date and time in R:

now <- strptime(Sys.time(), "%Y-%m-%d%T")
time_stamp <- sprintf("%s", now )