2012/6/21 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > Duncan Murdoch
setRepositories() shows my repo to be one of the defaults (this can be set in the repositories file, which I did). Doesn't work anyway. One strange thing though is that setRepositories() doesn't give the correct name that I configured, just "NA". Ingmar -- Ingmar Schuster Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel. +49 341 9732205 http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/en/staff/Ingmar_Schuster ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
