[R] R and packages

[J Dougherty]

You want to take the sysad by the hairy of his chinny-chin-chin and explain 
the issue in short sentences.  He or she ought to be able produce a solution 
without difficulty, and should not have any problems about doing so.  It IS 
their job.  

JD  

On Monday 20 February 2006 17:07, Erin Hodgess wrote:
> Dear R People:
>
> Here is yet another strange problem.
>
> I'm using R in one of my classes.  However, the computer lab has something
> called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything to the hard
> drive.
>
> I had R installed and things were working well.  They would save their
> .Rdata files to disks.
>
> Now, we need to add more packages.  We can't download and we can't
> bring them in via zip files (already tried both!)  When the zip files
> are expanded, of course they build new directories......
>
> I'm completely annoyed because learning to download packages
> and installing them from local zips are actually important tasks!
> We're also losing good teaching/learning time!
>
> Anyhow, what I would like to do is produce a sort of combination R
> installation exe with our extra libraries as part of the package.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be done, please?
>
> This is R for Windows, Version 2.2.1
>
> Thanks for any help!  Sorry about the totally weird problem!
>
> Sincerely,
> Erin Hodgess
> Associate Professor
> Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
> University of Houston - Downtown
> mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu
>
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