[R] Getting all R packages

[Dr. Diego Kuonen]

"(Ted Harding)" wrote:
> 
> Rather than spend a tedious interactive session
> picking several (in fact most) of the library
> packages off the CRAN site one by one, it would
> be handy to be able to grab the lot in one go
...
> Is there a way to do this?

You may want to have a look at the help file of

  install.packages

Sth. like

  > install.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1])

will do the job. And then once a week, say,

  > update.packages()

Greets,

  Diego Kuonen


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