Renaud, The script below has been in use for about as long as littler existed, and also ships with it. I use it, and its sibbling 'update.r' all the time. Doing this at the command-line frees the R prompt during compilations too...
As Barry suggests, the RStudio-provided CDN is not a bad choice either as a repo. Dirk edd@max:~$ cat bin/install.r #!/usr/bin/env r # # a simple example to install one or more packages if (is.null(argv) | length(argv)<1) { cat("Usage: installr.r pkg1 [pkg2 pkg3 ...]\n") q() } ## adjust as necessary, see help('download.packages') #repos <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org" repos <- "http://cran.r-project.org" ## this makes sense on Debian where no packages touch /usr/local lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" install.packages(argv, lib.loc, repos) edd@max:~$ -- Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel