On 21.06.2012 14:05, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 12-06-21 5:58 AM, Ingmar Schuster wrote:
Hi List,
I've set up a CRAN-like repository (not a CRAN mirror) on the local
filesystem (this will change to http in the future). R has been told
about this repository using the following entry in
R_HOME/etc/repositories:
PMR2 PMR2 file:///Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2/
TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE
Now I expected download.packages(), install.packages() etc. to look
for packages in "/Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2/"
without passing them repos="file:///Users/..." as an option. That
doesn't happen and I'm not completely sure why. Did I misinterpret the
role of R_HOME/etc/repositories or is it possible I made a mistake?
A related question is this: my PMR2 repo provides source packages
only. Is there a way to tell a lokal R installation to look for source
packages _only_ for this specific repo and use binary packages for
CRAN?
Thanks a lot
Ingmar
You need to set the "repos" option to change the default repository. The
setRepositories() function does that using the file you edited.
And note that is must be a complete repository, i.e. packages in subdir
"./src/contrib". A user can use install.packages(....., type="source")
if you do not provide binaries in case they are expected by default.
Uwe Ligges
Duncan Murdoch
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