[R] Installing R packages in windows

[Liaw, Andy]

A half-way decent ftp client would allow you to get all files in a
directory, so that ought to be quite easy.

Andy

> From: Vikas Rawal
> 
> Thank you. That is useful. But is it possible to download all 
> the packages in one go, or would one have download each one by one?
> 
> Vikas
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Uwe Ligges <ligges at statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
> To: Vikas Rawal <vikas at mail.jnu.ac.in>
> Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:55:42 +0100
> Subject: Re: [R] Installing R packages in windows
> 
> Vikas Rawal wrote:
> 
> > I need to install a selected set of packages on a number of 
> machines (in a computer lab). Some of these machines are not 
> connected to internet. Is it possible to download all the 
> packages and make a kind of repository on a CD, and then 
> install.packages from the CD?
> 
> Yes, just download the packages and install.packages with 
> CRAN=NULL ...
> 
> Instead, you might want to mount the installed packages from 
> a network 
> volume instead, adding a second library path for R. So you 
> only need to 
> install stuff once.
> 
> 
> Uwe Ligges
> 
> 
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> > Vikas
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