Strategy for downloading packages
I have a client who wants to install R and a custom package on a machine with no internet connection, so he wants to put everything needed on a CDROM and install from there. I've told him how to work out what is needed, but it seems that too much manual work is needed: he needs to install the packages from .zip files (this is Windows) in the right order so dependencies are met, etc. Is there an automated tool to do this? That is: - start from an R installation that's working, and then follow the dependency tree from a specified list of packages to generate a list of packages to download - download all the .zip or .tar.gz files for those from CRAN (possibly listing the ones that don't exist there, because they are local custom ones) - produce a script that can be run to install all of them on a new R install. Duncan Murdoch