On 15-01-2011, at 07:39, Murray Jorgensen wrote:
> Well, still no responses, but I'm further along the trail. I decided that I
> must need that 'PACKAGES' file so I went back to CRAN and got it, and placed
> it in my /Applications/tgz12.1/ folder.
>
> This time with 'Other Directory URL' as 'files:///Applications/tgz12.1/' I at
> least got the Package list populated in the 'Repository Version' column.
>
> I selected all and clicked 'Install Selected' to no obvious result, although
> maybe I was too impatient. Then I tried again selecting only the first
> package 'abc' but still it seems without response.
First of all, if you are trying to install from a local repository there are
specific and detailed requirements.
See page 21-22 of the R-admin.pdf manual under heading "Setting up a package
repository".
Second, there is no need to place the .tgz files in a folder in /Applications.
Also highly undesirable since /Applications is for applications and a system
folder.
I have never installed from downloaded files so I may be completely wrong.
I have tested my recipe by downloading foreach_1.3.0.tgz and doing as described
below (except that I installed the stuff in my personal R library).
Place the .tgz files (mac binary package files) in a directory in your user
tree.
For example ~/Temp/R
Start R.app and set the above directory as the working directory (menu Misc,
Change Working Directory or with setwd("~/Temp/R").
Then for informative purposes do list.files() to check if all went well. You
should see a list of the files you placed in that directory.
Now enter .libPaths() to see in which slot the main R library is located
(Look for "/Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources/library"; for me it's in
slot 2).
Assume you want to install package foreach_1.3.0 (file foreach_1.3.0.tgz) then
enter the following command in R.app
install.packages(pkgs=c("foreach_1.3.0.tgz"),lib=.libPaths()[2],repos=NULL)
Repeat for other packages ( you can also set pkgs=c("pkg1.tgz", "pkg2.tgz",...)
)
good luck
Berend
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