[R] R "sumo" package suggestion

[Prof Brian Ripley]

What exactly is the suggestion?

R does have package bundles.  It ships with a basic collection of
packages.

install.packages will install many packages at once.

R-devel has a function new.packages to find the currently uninstalled
packages, so install.packages(new.packages()) installs them all, should
they actually all work on your system (and that's impossible as several
require a Unix-alike and one requires Windows)


On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Rodney Sparapani wrote:

> r-help:
>
> I have an R package suggestion.  After spending
> several hours the other day installing about a dozen
> packages, I had an idea.  In xemacs, there is a
> "sumo" package which allows me to install a large
> bundle of xemacs packages at one time (about a 120
> modes including ESS).  I think R should have a
> similar bundle.  It would be so much easier than
> hunting/downloading/installing.  Martin encouraged
> me to send this suggestion to r-help.  In addition,
> he put together a few comments relating to the previous
> times that this, or a similar suggestion, has been
> brought up here.
>
> Martin wrote:
>
> If you search for "install all CRAN packages"
> on
> 	http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/
>
> (the URL which is quickly found from the [Search] sidebar of
> http://www.R-project.org/)
>
> You find things like Greg Warnes 'Makefile'
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/0723.html
> and
> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/0616.html
> which is from Tony and has the following small function:
>
>   installNewCRANPackages <- function() {
>     ## (C) A.J. Rossini, 2002--2004
>     test2 <- packageStatus()$avail["Status"]
>     install.packages(row.names(test2)[which(test2$Status=="not installed")])
>   }
>
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