Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0505040938160.725@gannet.stats>
Date: 2005-05-04T08:40:35Z
From: Brian Ripley
Subject: contributed package source codes
In-Reply-To: <4278887C.6080702@stats.uwo.ca>
On Wed, 4 May 2005, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> mingan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way for me to get the source code ( C/C++ or FORTRAN) for a
>> specific R package ?
>
> The source to contributed packages is in <CRAN
> mirror>/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html. You can find your CRAN mirror by looking
> at the CRAN entry in options("repos"). (You may need to call
> chooseCRANmirror() first, if it hasn't already been called.)
And in 2.1.0 you can retrieve the source by e.g.
download.packages("AMORE", type="source", destdir="/tmp")
on any platform (MacOS X not tested).
--
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