[R] Installing R with all packages

[Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr]

Hi

I use the script in the attached file to do this

Cheers
P.J.



On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Uwe Ligges wrote:

> Christian Hennig wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want R to be installed on a UNIX network (Solaris). I am not the system
> > administrator and so I cannot do it myself.
> > The system administrator wants to know which packages I want, and it may be
> > a lot.
> > Is there an easy way to download and install all packages at once?
>
> Yes. Combination of CRAN.packages() and install.packages() will do, but
> it's for sure an overhead to install all packages given you are the only
> one who uses R on that machine.
>
>
> > Is it a good idea? (There is a good chance that I do not need the some
> > few packages that do not install well during such a procedure, and so I would
> > like to tell the sysadmin to do it even if it will not be 100% successful).
> >
> > Unfortunately it may be even more compicated, because it may be (I was not
> > able to find it out absolutely surely) that our net
> > architecture does not allow to do it via
> > install.packages from within R. So what is the easiest way to
> > do it from outside R?
> >
> > If it is not a good idea to install all packages
> > at once, what is the easiest way to
> > download and install a list of, say, 30 packages? R CMD INSTALL accepts a
> > list as input; but how to download a list of 30 packages at once?
>
> E.g. download.file() within R or "wget" outside are the tools I'd choose.
>
>
> > (The sysadmin would really appreciate if we could do it in a way that
> > later additions of packages are reduced to a minimum.)
>
> Have you told the sysadmin that some packages are updated very frequently?
>
>
> I propose to set up your own library section (in a directory accessible
> by yourself), where you can install packages independently from the
> sysadmin.
>
> Uwe Ligges
>
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Paulo Justiniano Ribeiro Jr
Departamento de Estatística
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#!/bin/bash
RPACKUP=`pwd`
echo ==================================
echo  downloading packages sources
echo ==================================
cd /home/DOWNLOADS/R
rsync -rvz --delete --include "contrib/" --include "*.tar.gz" --exclude "*" cran.r-project.org::CRAN/src/ .
cd contrib
for pack in `ls *.tar.gz`
do
R CMD INSTALL -c $pack
cd $RPACKUP