[R] Installing add on packages

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Douglas Bates <bates at stat.wisc.edu> writes:

> The call to R INSTALL would look like
> 
> R INSTALL /usr/apps/tree -l ~/.Rlibs
> 
> or something like that.
> 
> Note that with recent versions of R you do not need to expand the tar
> file.  You can give the name of the tar file to the INSTALL command.

Or, from inside R, directly from CRAN:

  install.packages('tree', '~/.Rlibs')

Omitting the 2nd argument causes the routine to issue a warning and
try to install in the system package location, which is often what you
want, provided you have the required write access.

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