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update from tar.gz in local directory on Unix/Solaris

2 messages · Christian Schulz, Brian Ripley

Christian Schulz
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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

(1) home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz

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).

Is

 > 
install.packages("/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz",repos=NULL)

correct?

Thanks for pointers and help
Christian
Brian Ripley
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On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Christian Hoffmann wrote:

            

      
      
      
    

        
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.

            

      
      
      
    

        
I presume all your paths are missing a leading / ?

            

      
      
      
    

        
You can state it, but it cannot be fulfilled. It would be lib.loc=.Library 
or lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/library/"

            

      
      
      
    

        
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)