On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Erin Hodgess wrote:
Dear R People:
Here is yet another strange problem.
I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer
called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything
I had R installed and things were working well. They would
.Rdata files to disks.
Now, we need to add more packages. We can't download and we can't
bring them in via zip files (already tried both!) When the
are expanded, of course they build new directories......
I would suggest making this the system administrator's
problem. Either
your site really has a policy that would prohibit R packages
(in which
case trying to subvert it may not be a good idea) or it is
exactly the
sort of problem that system administrators are supposed to solve.
Distrust for R binary (and even source) packages is not a completely
unreasonable attitude. They can execute arbitrary code on
your computer
and, in contrast to R itself, you usually have no real
knowledge of who
wrote them.
-thomas
I'm completely annoyed because learning to download packages
and installing them from local zips are actually important tasks!
We're also losing good teaching/learning time!
Anyhow, what I would like to do is produce a sort of combination R
installation exe with our extra libraries as part of the package.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be done, please?
This is R for Windows, Version 2.2.1