Thank you. That is useful. But is it possible to download all the packages in 
one go, or would one have download each one by one?

Vikas

-----Original Message-----
From: Uwe Ligges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Vikas Rawal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 13:55:42 +0100
Subject: Re: [R] Installing R packages in windows

Vikas Rawal wrote:

> I need to install a selected set of packages on a number of machines (in a 
> computer lab). Some of these machines are not connected to internet. Is it 
> possible to download all the packages and make a kind of repository on a CD, 
> and then install.packages from the CD?

Yes, just download the packages and install.packages with CRAN=NULL ...

Instead, you might want to mount the installed packages from a network 
volume instead, adding a second library path for R. So you only need to 
install stuff once.


Uwe Ligges



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