Message-ID: <4B8BDE34.6070000@datanalytics.com>
Date: 2010-03-01T15:33:08Z
From: Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
Subject: Idea for install.packages on (certain) linux distributions
Hello,
I do not know whether this idea would be considered useful or not. Or
easy to implement.
But it is the case that on certain Linux distributions there are OS
packages with precompiled R packages. However, install.packages (and
related functions) download the source ones.
Would it be possible to add an extra "repository" (or option) on
install.packages that would direct R to use the OS level package manager
(apt-get, yum or the like) so as to install the precompiled packages
from the distribution mirrors instead of the CRAN ones?
Best regards,
Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com