On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Uwe Ligges wrote: > > > Scott Hyde wrote: >> I'd like to create a small "local" repository that would be used to >> install a package for a class of students at their home. I don't want >> to upload it to CRAN, as I don't think it should be disseminated at >> that level. >> >> What I'd like to do is: >> >>> where="http://mysite.com/"; >>> install.packages("mypackage",contriburl=where) >> >> When I try this, (after placing my mypackage_1.0.tar.gz file in the >> main directory of http://mysite.com/, it responds, in R, when I want >> to install the package: >> >> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://mysite.com/ >> >> What do I need to do? > > You need a PACKAGES file in that directory that gives an index which > packages are available. > > See function write_PACKAGES() in package "tools".
See also the section on 'Setting up a package repository' in the R-admin manual. Using 'contriburl' is _not_ setting up a repository, and one might as well do it properly and benefit from e.g. the automatic searching of multiple repositories. -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
