Henrik solution is probably just what you need, but just to mention a
similar solution, there is also:

if (!require('installr')) install.packages('installr'); require('installr')
install.packages.zip("zip_URL")

(the source code is here:
https://github.com/talgalili/installr/blob/master/R/install.r)

And if two packages created the same function, I am wondering if this might
be a worthwhile patch to add to "install.packages" (but there are more
important things to do first, I imagine).

Best,
Tal








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On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:33 PM, Henrik Bengtsson <hb@biostat.ucsf.edu>wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Christofer Bogaso
> <bogaso.christofer@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > I need to install Rmpi package from this
> > http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/yu/Rmpi/download/windows/MPICH2
> >
> > I was wondering if there is any direct way to install this in R. The
> > trivial method would obviously be download and save the required zip file
> > in the local disk and install it from there.
>
> R.utils::installPackages(url)
>
> /Henrik
>
> >
> > Any idea?
> >
> > Thanks and regards,
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