[R] howto test a package without installation

[Ken Hutchison]

Did not fully read the without installing it part.  
  Mea Culpa,
     Ken

On Jan 15, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

> I don't believe you can. However, you need not install it into a system-wide library directory... your personal library (e.g. /home/jonas/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/2.14) should be sufficient.
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> Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> how can i play around with my first selfwritten package [*]
>> without to install it to my debian system?
>> 
>> I think of something like doing this:
>> 
>> /tmp/$ R
>> R version 2.11.1 (2010-05-31)
>> Copyright (C) 2010 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>> ISBN 3-900051-07-0
>> 
>>> library(/tmp/sitools)
>> 
>> 3 * kilo
>> [1] 3000
>> 
>> 
>> [*] https://github.com/jonasstein/sitools
>> 
>> -- 
>> Jonas Stein <news at jonasstein.de>
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