[R] update.packages - delete downloaded - N

[Uwe Ligges]

Heinz Tuechler wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Using Update Packages from CRAN in R Version 2.0.1 Patched (2005-01-15)
> under Windows 98, I found it tricky to save the downloaded files.
> Even if I answer "N" to the question, if the downloaded files should be
> deleted, they are deleted after R is quitted. I understood that I have to
> copy them to a different location before quitting R. Is this an intended
> behavoiur of R or did I miss some instruction?

Yes, intended, yes, you missed "destdir":

It is intended to save in tempdir() by default.
You can specify argument "destdir", if you want something different.

Uwe Ligges


> Heinz Tüchler
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