R and packages

You want to take the sysad by the hairy of his chinny-chin-chin and  
explain
the issue in short sentences.  He or she ought to be able produce a  
solution
without difficulty, and should not have any problems about doing  
so.  It IS
their job.

JD

On Monday 20 February 2006 17:07, Erin Hodgess wrote:

Dear R People:

Here is yet another strange problem.

I'm using R in one of my classes.  However, the computer lab has  
something
called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything to the  
hard
drive.

I had R installed and things were working well.  They would save  
their
.Rdata files to disks.

Now, we need to add more packages.  We can't download and we can't
bring them in via zip files (already tried both!)  When the zip files
are expanded, of course they build new directories......

I'm completely annoyed because learning to download packages
and installing them from local zips are actually important tasks!
We're also losing good teaching/learning time!

Anyhow, what I would like to do is produce a sort of combination R
installation exe with our extra libraries as part of the package.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be done, please?

This is R for Windows, Version 2.2.1

Thanks for any help!  Sorry about the totally weird problem!

Sincerely,
Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: hodgess at gator.uhd.edu