On 04/14/04 11:42, Duncan Murdoch wrote: >On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:07:42 +0200, Kasper Daniel Hansen ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>You do not find it a bit overkill to install all of CRAN per default? > >I can see two situations where this would be desirable: > >On a laptop or other machine that is often not connected to the net: >install everything just in case you might want something and can't go >to CRAN for it. > >In a public lab where users have limited ability to install packages, >it's good to have them all there.
A third reason: You run a search site where you want people to be able to search all the help files, such as the one at the end of my sig. May 1, after updating to R-1.9, I plan to try this script to see if it knows not to update files that haven't changed, and add some other odds and ends that I have installed. Jon -- Jonathan Baron, Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania Home page: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~baron R page: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/ ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
