How to install a package

Mon, Jul 14, 2003 5:53 AM #

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 08:25:46 +0200, you wrote:

Uwe, do you think it would be helpful to display this information from
Rgui?  That is, put the whole list of packages into the menu, but mark
some of them as unavailable and display the explanation if those are
selected?  I'd guess lots of Rgui users never look at the binary
directory themselves, they let Rgui do it.

Duncan Murdoch

Uwe Ligges

Mon, Jul 14, 2003 6:09 AM #

Duncan Murdoch wrote:

Good idea.
Probably easier: Everything as is, but as one uses "Install ...." or 
"Update packages from CRAN", just display the ReadMe in a pager (needs 
~2 lines of code). What about Bioconductor?

Anyway, the question arises what to do with the functions 
install.packages(), update.packages()? People might use it in BATCH mode 
or from Rterm ...

Uwe