This is questionable advice for many CRAN packages, and horrible advice for a Bioconductor package. If there are any dependencies (and BioC packages often have many, and their dependencies may have dependencies...) you can end up in download hell, all because you have ignored the functionality that exists in R to handle such things.
As other posters have noted, you can use setRepositories(). You can also set this in your .Rprofile file with something like options(repos=(CRAN="http://ACloseRepository")) so you don't have to do anything interactively. Then use install.packages(), with dependencies=TRUE if you think there may be dependencies (although I don't think it hurts if there are none). For Bioconductor packages, use biocLite() source("http://www.bioconductor.org/biocLite.R") biocLite("GEOquery") Best, Jim Gabor Csardi wrote: > Eleni, download the package (I assume you know where it is), > on Linux you will need the source package. Then from R type > > install.packages("<the file you downloaded>", repos=NULL) > > Gabor > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 11:26:12AM +0200, Eleni Christodoulou wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am trying to install the package "GEOquery" in unix. I have downloaded the >> standard version of R and this package is not contained in the default. I >> know that I can select repositories under windows but I don't know how to do >> it in unix. Does anyone have any idea on this? >> >> Thank you in advance, >> Eleni >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- James W. MacDonald, M.S. Biostatistician Affymetrix and cDNA Microarray Core University of Michigan Cancer Center 1500 E. Medical Center Drive 7410 CCGC Ann Arbor MI 48109 734-647-5623 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.