update from tar.gz in local directory on Unix/Solaris
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Hoffmann wrote:
Hi list, I have not been successful in finding out from the available documentation how under Unix/Solaris to update a packages which I downloaded from the net as the original *.tar.gz and stored in a local file, say
What does 'update' mean here? Do you want to install those, or install later versions from CRAN, or what? update.packages() is about updating from a repository, which you do not have, AFAICS.
(1) home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz
I presume all your paths are missing a leading / ?
A lot of installed libraries are residing in (2) home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/library/ but it is unclear to me, how to proceed, since in "Usage" update.packages(lib.loc = NULL, repos = CRAN, it says "lib.loc character vector describing the location of R library trees to search through (and update packages therein)." CRAN packages are residing in (3) usr/local/lib/R/library/ How should I state my wish for "pack" to reside in (3) which I cannot manipulate directly (I am not an administrator).
You can state it, but it cannot be fulfilled. It would be lib.loc=.Library or lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/library/"
Is
install.packages("/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz",repos=NULL)
correct?
Probably not, as you need to give a library tree to install into, one with
suitable permissions. To give a real example,
install.packages("/users/ripley/R/packages/contrib/ash_1.0-9.tar.gz",
lib="~/R/library", repos=NULL)
Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595