r-help: I have an R package suggestion. After spending several hours the other day installing about a dozen packages, I had an idea. In xemacs, there is a "sumo" package which allows me to install a large bundle of xemacs packages at one time (about a 120 modes including ESS). I think R should have a similar bundle. It would be so much easier than hunting/downloading/installing. Martin encouraged me to send this suggestion to r-help. In addition, he put together a few comments relating to the previous times that this, or a similar suggestion, has been brought up here.
Martin wrote:
If you search for "install all CRAN packages" on http://maths.newcastle.edu.au/~rking/R/ (the URL which is quickly found from the [Search] sidebar of http://www.R-project.org/) You find things like Greg Warnes 'Makefile' http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/0723.html and http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/help/04/04/0616.html which is from Tony and has the following small function: installNewCRANPackages <- function() { ## (C) A.J. Rossini, 2002--2004 test2 <- packageStatus()$avail["Status"] install.packages(row.names(test2)[which(test2$Status=="not installed")]) } ---------- Rodney Sparapani Medical College of Wisconsin Sr. Biostatistician Patient Care & Outcomes Research rsparapa at mcw.edu http://www.mcw.edu/pcor Was 'Name That Tune' rigged? WWLD -- What Would Lombardi Do