>>>>> On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:16:47 +0200, >>>>> Janko Thyson (JT) wrote:
> Dear List, > I'd like to set up a package repository so I can use install.packages() on > it for home-grown packages. I set up an AMPP infrastructure on a windows box > already, but I'm pretty lost with respect to what to do next as I didn't do > any web-programming/admin yet. Could anyone recommend some r-specific > tutorials or has a couple of suggestions for me? I've had a look at the > official R manual, but it just describes the required repository structure, > but not how to implement that. I'd also be willing to dive into SVN and > alikes if you think that's best practice. If all machines involved can mount the repository as a network drive you need no webserver at all, just use a file:/path/to/repository URL for the repository. If you want a full featured web frontend you may want to have a look at the Bioconductor scripts for generating repositories: http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.7/bioc/html/biocViews.html and especially http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.7/bioc/vignettes/biocViews/inst/doc/createReposHtml.pdf The scripts for CRAN are also in R but very specific for CRANs needs ... Best, Fritz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof. Dr. Friedrich Leisch Institut für Statistik Tel: (+49 89) 2180 3165 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Fax: (+49 89) 2180 5308 Ludwigstraße 33 D-80539 München http://www.statistik.lmu.de/~leisch ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Journal Computational Statistics --- http://www.springer.com/180 Münchner R Kurse --- http://www.statistik.lmu.de/R ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
