[R] install.packages() for local source file

[Roger D. Peng]

By the way, do you get this error in a recent version of R (say >= 1.9.1).  I 
believe install.packages() has changed since 1.9.0.  For example, see the thread 
starting here

https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-July/053001.html

-roger

Paul Roebuck wrote:
> Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from
> within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as
> 
> $ export R_LIBS=~/R/library
> $ cd /path/to/pkg
> $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname>
> 
> 
> So, how do you go about this anyway?
> And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'?
> 
> -------
> $ R
> 
> R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
> Version 1.9.0  (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3
> 
> 
>>file.pkg <- "mypkg_0.1.tar.gz"
>>path.pkg <- file.path(path.expand("~"), "cvknn", file.pkg)
>>file.exists(path.pkg)
> 
> [1] TRUE
> 
>>uri.pkg <- paste("file://", path.pkg, sep = "")
>>install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"))
> 
> Error in file.info(x) : Object "tmpd" not found
> 
>>traceback()
> 
> 4: file.info(x)
> 3: dirTest(destdir)
> 2: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available,
>        contriburl = contriburl, method = method)
> 1: install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"))
> 
>>version
> 
>          _
> platform sparc-sun-solaris2.9
> arch     sparc
> os       solaris2.9
> system   sparc, solaris2.9
> status
> major    1
> minor    9.0
> year     2004
> month    04
> day      12
> language R
> 
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