How to download all packages and then install
On 21/02/2012 03:31, Xiong Deng wrote:
Hi, I am working on a stand-alone Linux Redhat machine, which is disconnected to outside...But I need R to be installed on the machine.... The only way available, so far as I know, is to download all the packages first and then copy to the machine and finally install them locally... But how can I download all the packages instead of using the install.packages(....) ?
The simplest way is to create a local CRAN mirror, then use a file:// URL to refer to it. The part of CRAN you need is ca 2GB at present. I use an rsync script something like rsync -rvCtL --delete --include="*.tar.gz" --include="PACKAGES*" --exclude="*/*" cran.r-project.org::CRAN/src/contrib . (so as not to mirror the 16GB Archive) and access it via contriburl="file:///.../R/packages/contrib"
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