Have download.packages consider non-CRAN repositories
On 22.06.2012 15:10, Ingmar Schuster wrote:
Hi Uwe and List,
Thanks for your suggestions.
It's a complete repository with source Packages and the PACKAGES(.gz)
index file under "src/contrib/". As mentioned: explicitly calling
install.packages("PACKAGE_NAME",
repos="file:///Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2/",
type="source");
works without any problems. But configuring the repository through
R_HOME/etc/repositories and obmitting the repos argument to
install.packages() is what I want and what doesn't work. Ideas?
1. I haven't tried your syntax from above, but I'd rather use
"file:/Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2"
or under Windows in a safer way::
"file:c:/Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2"
2. Maybe you forgot to set the Repository active via setRepositories()?
3. Why don't you just set the repositories at startup, e.g. in
Rprofile.site or your personal .Rprofile via:
local({
r <- getOption("repos")
r["myCRAN"] <- "file:////store/ligges/public_html/CRAN"
options(repos=r)
})
works for me with store being a machine in the network (via UNC path).
Best,
uwe Ligges
And note that is must be a complete repository, i.e. packages in subdir "./src/contrib". A user can use install.packages(....., type="source") if you do not provide binaries in case they are expected by default. Uwe Ligges
I knew about the type="source" argument to install.packages() but hoped there would be a way to permanently configure this as default for a source-only repository. Thanks, Ingmar Schuster