[R] install own packages

[Uwe Ligges]

Christian Hoffmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Soory, if I missed relevant help pages.

Yes, you missed quite a lot

  - the "R Installation and Administration" manual
  - the help ?install.packages which points you to
  - ?INSTALL
  - and there's also an article on package management
    in the R Help Desk of R-News 3/3

Uwe Ligges



> I have developed several packages myself and want to give them to a 
> collegue in *.tar.gz form (Unix, Solaris).
> 
> What is the proper function to install them? install.packages() with a 
> path pointing to the local temp instead of to CRAN?
 >
> Thanks for help.
> Christian