I wish the (default) utils::install.packages function could take a version number of the requested library. I also wish library() would automatically install li

I wish the (default) utils::install.packages function could take a version number of the requested library. I also wish library() would automatically install libraries not available on the system. (Both can be achieved with custom functions that shadow the default ones but I would like to see this functionality in the base packages.) Other than that, I think all alternatives to this "threat called R" are worse. It's telling the author has to cite a bug from 2016 for an example of a breaking change.