[R] Installing R packages in windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Liaw, Andy wrote:

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

... or wget ... or in R:
download.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1], destdir = ......)

Uwe Ligges



> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>Vikas
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