contrib.url {utils}R Documentation

Find Appropriate Paths in CRAN-like Repositories

Description

contrib.url adds the appropriate type-specific path within a repository to each URL in repos.

Usage

contrib.url(repos, type = getOption("pkgType"))

Arguments

repos

character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use.

type

character string, indicating which type of packages: see install.packages.

Details

If type = "both" this will use the source repository.

Value

A character vector of the same length as repos.

See Also

setRepositories to set options("repos"), the most common value used for argument repos.

available.packages, download.packages, install.packages.

Section “Setting up a package repository” in R Installation and Administration.


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