Peter, i tried the file.choose() method of installing from local zip files;
its easy to install few packages that way. but you see if there are many
packages(say >10 or 12), then i wont be able to install the packages on
which the packages that i want to install depend because i guess i cant set
dependencies=TRUE by this method.

here is what i tried
i replaced "http://my.local.cran" (code below) in Rprofile.site with
"file://C:/R/packages/" and then did

install.packages(c("pkg1", "pkg2", ...),dependencies=TRUE) in R console but
dint succeed..

# set a CRAN mirror
 local({r <- getOption("repos")
      r["CRAN"] <- "http://my.local.cran/"
       options(repos=r)})

Would Appreciate help

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