List installed packages?

[andrewheiss]

Is there a way to replicate RStudio's packages panel?

I've found this to be super useful when teaching R and I always direct students to this panel to install packages. And helpful in general for quickly seeing which versions of things I have installed, which ones have updates available, and so on.

In this issue (#1369), there's a discussion about making it possible to see which packages are currently loaded in a session. I'm curious if there's currently a way to see which packages are installed but not necessarily loaded.

[juliasilge]

We do not currently have a way to do this. We have some discussion about how we might implement such a feature in #1391 if you would like to add any additional context or detail.