From: Thomas Lumley > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Erin Hodgess wrote: > > > Dear R People: > > > > Here is yet another strange problem. > > > > I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer > lab has something > > called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything > to the hard drive. > > > > I had R installed and things were working well. They would > save their > > .Rdata files to disks. > > > > Now, we need to add more packages. We can't download and we can't > > bring them in via zip files (already tried both!) When the > zip files > > are expanded, of course they build new directories...... > > I would suggest making this the system administrator's > problem. Either > your site really has a policy that would prohibit R packages > (in which > case trying to subvert it may not be a good idea) or it is > exactly the > sort of problem that system administrators are supposed to solve. > > Distrust for R binary (and even source) packages is not a completely > unreasonable attitude. They can execute arbitrary code on > your computer > and, in contrast to R itself, you usually have no real > knowledge of who > wrote them. > > -thomas > > > > > I'm completely annoyed because learning to download packages > > and installing them from local zips are actually important tasks! > > We're also losing good teaching/learning time! > > > > Anyhow, what I would like to do is produce a sort of combination R > > installation exe with our extra libraries as part of the package. > > > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be done, please? > > > > This is R for Windows, Version 2.2.1
In case the sysadmin refuses to make it his/her problem, this would be a good alternative. It's not hard to build a custom R installer that includes packages of your choice. It's all documented. Look in the R-admin manual (e.g., http://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/R-admin.html) and search for EXTRA_PKGS. Andy > > Thanks for any help! Sorry about the totally weird problem! > > > > Sincerely, > > Erin Hodgess > > Associate Professor > > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > > University of Houston - Downtown > > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > [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 > > > > Thomas Lumley Assoc. Professor, Biostatistics > [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Washington, Seattle > > ______________________________________________ > [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 > > ______________________________________________ [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
