installing ONLY the documentation files (Rd) for many packages?
see below. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley
<ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote:
I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system?
I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files. All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. ?One possibility would be to run a loop of calls to ?R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help (which some people have asked for in the past). However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and discard the parts you don't want.
Thanks! Finally, I am back to this, and below is my solution as a
shell script (bash,
debian):
# shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages,
# ( *.tar.gz files)
# to ~/R/allinstall
#
for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z
do
if [ -f $FILE ]
then
nice R CMD INSTALL --library=~/R/allinstall --no-test-load \
--no-configure --html --no-libs --no-exec $FILE \
|| echo "Problems encountered during processing of $FILE" &
fi
done
#
However, this do not work! When I run the command within the loop
directly in a shell, I can see the results in ~/R/allinstall,
but run as above, I can see no results (apart from a lot of cpu cycles)
Kjetil
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