[R-SIG-Mac] Installing sources from R Forge

[Ben Bolker]

On 10-09-06 07:21 PM, steven mosher wrote:
> What the process from the GUI to instal a  .tar of the latest package of
> source.
> 
> I've downloaded the .tar.
> 
> selecting install from local sources seemed correct and then do you select
> the tar, or do you untar the file first.
> 
> The latter seems not to work and the former failed.


  I'm not on a Mac, but what's wrong with

install.packages([pkgname],repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org",type="source")


 ... ?