Liaw, Andy wrote:
A half-way decent ftp client would allow you to get all files in a directory, so that ought to be quite easy.
... or wget ... or in R: download.packages(CRAN.packages()[,1], destdir = ......)
Uwe Ligges
Andy
From: Vikas Rawal
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
Vikas
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