[R] Installing packages from command line on Linux RHEL4

Dirk Eddelbuettel edd at debian.org
Tue May 22 03:43:10 CEST 2007


Kermit,

On 21 May 2007 at 12:05, Kermit Short wrote:
| Dirk-
| 	Many thanks for your reply.  As I mentioned, I know very little
| about programming in 'R' and what I've got is a BASH script.  If needs be,
| I'll look up how to read in a text file through R and add that into your
| script in lieu of the (argv) stuff, but you wouldn't happen to know how to
| accomplish the same thing using the 
| 
| R CMD INSTALL
| 
| Shell command?

I'm confused. Your 1st email asked about the mirror selection. Now you want
to install from local files. Those are two different problems.

Please consult the 'R Admin' manual, or go back to the list with preferably
concrete questions, or reproducible examples.

Hth, Dirk

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