Installing Mac packages from a directory of .tgz files

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install.packages(pkgs=c("foreach_1.3.0.tgz"),lib=.libPaths()[2],repos=NULL)

Repeat for other packages ( you can also set pkgs=c("pkg1.tgz", "pkg2.tgz",...) )

good luck

Berend

OK, thanks Berend! - I think that worked for the first package. Now I 
need to form a pkgs character vector with the names of the other 2646 
packages. One way I thought of was to open a terminal window in the 
package folder, do an ls, then edit in all the commas and quotes. 
Perhaps you know an easier way?

Murray

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