Installing Packages from a Local Repository

You have to specify the repository as

"file:Q:/Integrated Planning/R"

(and I am not entirely sure if blanks are supported).
Actually, that's not right: see ?url.  All URI schemes start like 
file:// . For Windows the help says

      In this form the path is relative to the root of the filesystem,
      not a Windows concept.  The standard form on Windows is
      ?file:///d:/R/repos?: for compatibility with earlier versions of R
      and Unix versions, any other form is parsed as R as ?file://? plus
      ?path_to_file?.  Also, backslashes are accepted within the path
      even though RFC1738 does not allow them.

Spaces should work, since it is R which converts this to a filepath (in 
a real URI there are lots of restrictions and spaces need to be encoded 
if the restrictions are enforced).  But file:// URIs on Windows are a 
minefield.
Best,
Uwe Ligges

On 13.12.2012 11:52, Tommy O'Dell wrote:
Hi everyone,

I've followed the instructions from R-Admin Section 6.6 for creating a
local repository. I've modified my Rprofile.site file to add the local
repository to my repos, but I haven't been able to successfully
install my
package from the repo.

Here's the code that I've run.

##################################
sessionInfo()
getOption("repos")
setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)

install.packages("RTIO")
install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
"win.binary")

unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))

############

And here it is with output included:
###########
sessionInfo()
R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
  LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_2.15.1
getOption("repos")
                                 CRAN
CRANextra
                            MyLocal
     "http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/" "http://www.stats.
ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"
    "file://Q:/Integrated Planning/R"
setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
[1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
[1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES"
"bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"
"bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
install.packages("RTIO")
Installing package(s) into ?C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
   cannot open compressed file '//Q:/Integrated
Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES', probable reason 'No such
file or directory'
Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
Installing package(s) into ?C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
   unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
Warning in install.packages :
   package ?RTIO? is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
"win.binary")
Installing package(s) into ?C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
   unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
Warning in install.packages :
   package ?RTIO? is not available (for R version 2.15.1)

unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))

#######################################

I'd really like to be able to use "install.packages("RTIO")" without
having
to specify the repo, as this will make it easy for our other less
experienced R users.

Any ideas why I get "warning: cannot open compressed file" and "error:
cannot open the connection"? As far as I can tell, I've followed the
R-Admin 6.6 instructions exactly.

If it matters, Q: is a mapped network drive.

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