Message-ID: <4E4FF5C7.5030506@statistik.tu-dortmund.de>
Date: 2011-08-20T17:58:31Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: 'install package(s) from local zip files': what is the syntax for that?
In-Reply-To: <00e701cc5f64$0e2c14c0$2a843e40$@gmail.com>
On 20.08.2011 20:07, Bogaso Christofer wrote:
> Dear all, if I want to install a package in windows system then generally I
> use the 'install package(s) from local zip files' from the 'package' menu.
> However I am interested to know that whether there is any syntax which I can
> use in the R console instead. I have tried with
> install.packages("__package_name", repos = 'f:/"), however could not.
Let me read ?install.packages for you:
The description of the first argument tells us:
"If repos = NULL, a character vector of file paths of ?.zip? files
containing binary builds of packages."
Hence
install.packages("f:/__package_name", repos = NULL)
seems to be more appropriate here.
Uwe Ligges
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