[R-SIG-Mac] Installing Mac packages from a directory of .tgz files

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Murray Jorgensen wrote:

> On 15/01/2011 9:35 p.m., Berend Hasselman wrote:
>> 
> ...
>> install.packages(pkgs=c("foreach_1.3.0.tgz"),lib=.libPaths()[2],repos=NULL)
>> 
>> Repeat for other packages ( you can also set pkgs=c("pkg1.tgz", 
>> "pkg2.tgz",...) )
>> 
>> good luck
>> 
>> Berend
>> 
> OK, thanks Berend! - I think that worked for the first package. Now I need to 
> form a pkgs character vector with the names of the other 2646 packages. One 
> way I thought of was to open a terminal window in the package folder, do an 
> ls, then edit in all the commas and quotes. Perhaps you know an easier way?

I do, and told you one .... (hint: I used dir()).

>
> Murray
>
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