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return value of `BiocManager::install()`

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Since Jun 8, 2020.

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Having BiocManager::install() return the "pkgs" argument is not especially useful. Could it instead return success/error codes? Otherwise, how can you tell in a script whether the requested packages were installed successfully or not?

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