If I understand you correctly, you want to have a mirror of CRAN on a private server behind your firewall. Check out https://cran.rstudio.com/mirror-howto.html <https://cran.rstudio.com/mirror-howto.html> which gives instructions on how to do this.
Cheers, Rainer > On 8 Jun 2017, at 23:29, Joshua Bradley <jgbradl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I am trying to setup a private CRAN for work (behind a firewall). The best > options available include miniCRAN > <https://github.com/RevolutionAnalytics/miniCRAN>, drat > <https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat> and packrat > <https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/>. One problem is these packages do not > automatically generate the web pages that are on the CRAN. > > Examples: > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/index.html > https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/available_packages_by_name.html > > Each time the CRAN adds a package, there must be an automated process in > place to regenerate the pages again with the new package added (example - A3 > <https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/A3/index.html>). I read somewhere > (possibly on stackoverflow) that the CRAN html pages are statically built. > I would like for users to be able to explore the packages in my private > CRAN just like the public CRAN without having to open R and search for > packages/documentation through the command line. > > The R Manual includes a small section > <https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-release/R-admin.html#Setting-up-a-package-repository> > on setting up a repository but it only discusses the structure of the > directories needed to host packages. Nothing is mentioned about how the > CRAN creates/updates the /web directory. What is the best way to > generate/maintain the web pages for a private CRAN? > > P.S. Let me know if this question is best answered on one of the other > mailing lists. > > Josh Bradley > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) University of Zürich Cell: +41 (0)78 630 66 57 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
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