[BioC] install package from local path with reposTools

[Ting-Yuan Liu]

Hi Axel,

Try this:

install.packages("theExactPathAndNameOfTheLocalPackage", repos=NULL)

HTH,
Ting-Yuan
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Ting-Yuan Liu
Program in Computational Biology
Division of Public Health Sciences
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA, USA
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On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Axel Rasche wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> Is it possible to install a BioConductor package from a local path?
> 
> I.e. I downloaded a BioConductor package to a local directory on my 
> machine. Now I would like to install it. The package reposTools allows 
> to install packages from repositories. Does it need a repository to use 
> reposTools?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Axel
> 
> 
>  > sessionInfo()
> R version 2.2.0, 2005-10-06, i686-pc-linux-gnu
> 
> attached base packages:
> [1] "tools"     "methods"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"
> [7] "datasets"  "base"
> 
> other attached packages:
> reposTools
>     "1.8.0"
> 
> 
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