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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