Doctor, update thyself
I teach a few R workshops a year, and I often send out the typical “make sure R and Rstudio is up-to-date, using these helpful links. And then of course the workshop starts, and all the class notices that I myself have not updated R in .. 7 months.
When I do decide to do it, I find I often need to google the correct procedure. In the spirit of this blog, here is a short note detailing the process, inspired by this stackoverflow note