Message-ID: <425B7E7C.4020206@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Date: 2005-04-12T07:53:32Z
From: Uwe Ligges
Subject: install own packages
In-Reply-To: <425B7061.6010001@wsl.ch>
Christian Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Soory, if I missed relevant help pages.
Yes, you missed quite a lot
- the "R Installation and Administration" manual
- the help ?install.packages which points you to
- ?INSTALL
- and there's also an article on package management
in the R Help Desk of R-News 3/3
Uwe Ligges
> I have developed several packages myself and want to give them to a
> collegue in *.tar.gz form (Unix, Solaris).
>
> What is the proper function to install them? install.packages() with a
> path pointing to the local temp instead of to CRAN?
>
> Thanks for help.
> Christian