[R] install.packages from local .tar.gz (was 'for local zip') files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006, Muhammad Subianto wrote:

> On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti <dmgatti at mindspring.com> wrote:
> > O/S: Linux
> > R version : 2.2.1
                ^^^^^
That appears to be the problem.  As the posting guide asked you to 
(***before posting***), please update.

And I presume we really are talking about .tar.gz files here, not 'zip 
files' (used on Windows, which did work in 2.2.1).

> install.packages("~/R/packages/contrib/ash_1.0-9.tar.gz", repos=NULL)

works perfectly in current R, but not in the obselete 2.2.1.

> > The R server doesn't have http internet access.  And the sys admins will
> > not install the R libraries that I requested.  So I have downloaded the
> > packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home
> > directory on the server.  These are a series of *.tar.gz files.  I want
> > to install the R libraries in my home directory, but I can't get it to
> > work.  According to the install.packages documentation :
> >
> > install.packages(pkgs, lib, repos = getOption("repos"),  contriburl =
> > contrib.url(repos, type), method, available = NULL, destdir = NULL,
> > installWithVers = FALSE, dependencies = FALSE, type = getOption("pkgType"))
> >
> > repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
> >        i.e., .... Can be 'NULL' to install from local '.tar.gz' files.
> >
> > contriburl: URL(s) of the contrib section of the repositories. ......
> >        Can be 'NULL' to install from local '.tar.gz' files.
> >
> >
> >  pkgs: character vector of the short names of packages/bundles whose
> >           current versions should be downloaded from the repositories.
> >           If 'repos = NULL', a character vector of file paths of
> >           '.tar.gz' files.  These can be source archives or binary
> >           package/bundle archive files (as created by 'R CMD build
> >           --binary'). ......
> >
> >  lib: character vector giving the library directories where to install
> > the packages.  Recycled as needed.
> >
> > So I have issued a command like this:
> >
> >  > install.packages(pkgs="~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz", lib =
> > "~/Rlib", repos=NULL, contriburl=NULL)
> >
> > Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available =
> > available,  :
> >          no package '~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz' at the
> > repositories
> >
> > As far as I can tell, I've given it the full path to the zip file, the
> > directory in which to install the library and I've set the repository
> > path to 'NULL' to indicate that I'm installing from an already
> > downloaded zip file.  But I'm missing something.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
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> 
> 
> 
> Put your packages, for example, in directory "/dir/of/pkgs"
> library(tools)
> write_PACKAGES("/dir/of/pkgs")
> 
> and the package will be installed to "/dir/of/R/libs"
> 
> install.packages("NameOfPkgs",
>                  lib="/dir/of/R/libs",
>                  repos=NULL,
>                  dependencies=TRUE,
>                  contriburl="file:////dir/of/pkgs")
> 
> Best, Muhammad Subianto
> 
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