In this helpful post, Digital Fellow Yuxiao Luo provides a nifty new way to update R on Windows computers. This new method for updating R will be available for Mac users soon as well. Yuxiao provides a step-by-step guide to install the “installr” package, as well as how to easily use this package to update R. This is a very helpful post for people doing data analysis or data visualization using R because it helps you stay on top of the software update cycle.