[R] Install from Local Zip

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, morphwj at comcast.net wrote:

> To install from a local zip file, install.packages option repos=NULL. 
> Then, how can dependencies of the local zip file, which are located in 
> the repository of contributor packages, be automatically installed?

They cannot.  You need a repository to know about dependencies, which are 
in the PACKAGES file.

> Or, is there a better way than to tell the person installing from local 
> zip what the dependent files are, and to install them from the 
> repository first?

Yes, create a local repository and use a file:// URL to access it. 
Details are in the R-admin manual (and in the archives of this list or 
R-devel).


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