Murray Jorgensen wrote: > I have not had a great amount of success installing/updating packages > from the "Packages" menu of Rgui under Windows XL. (Except for > installing from loacal zip files.) > > But I am not asking for help in using these facilities because I prefer > to keep a folder of package zip files. On the other hand I do find it > tedious having to right-click "Save link as" on every individual file > from CRAN. > > I'm sure someone knows a faster way to do it.
You probably want to use "wget". I think a "recursive web suck" would suck down a whole directory from CRAN in one command: wget -r -l1 http://cran.<mirror>.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/2.2/ will get all the contents of the Windows 2.2 binary directory, plus a bit of other junk. You want the -l1 to limit yourself to things directly referenced on that page, otherwise you'll get all of CRAN. wget is available in various places on the web; I forget where I got my copy. I think there are options in various browsers to do the same thing, but I haven't used them. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
