On 17/12/2013 22:02, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
On 13-12-17 1:18 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
The obvious idea to set up a local repository works. It takes 5 mins at
most.
That makes a lot of sense to do on Unix-alikes, but less so on Windows.
A local repository of tarballs needs to be in src/contrib below the
URL of the repository. On Unix setting that up as a soft link to the
real location would be trivial, but on Windows you'd probably want that
to be the only path to the files, and that's not very convenient when
you're already used to keeping them elsewhere.
On Linux/OS X/Solaris I do use a soft link.
I have used junctions on Windows. (I know they do not always work on
Windows, but they do on the Win 7 systems I use.)
Duncan Murdoch
On 17/12/2013 18:08, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
So apparently not as simple as I thought it would be. So I'll tell you
what I actually do:
I have a number of packages under development, some on CRAN, some not. I
also work in multiple builds of R pretty frequently, so I like to
install all my packages and commonly used ones from other people. So I
put together a little script that I can run that will install or update
a list of about 20 packages. Here it is, with the names deleted.
# Script to install current versions of commonly used packages
installed <- rownames(installed.packages())
old <- old.packages()
oldoptions <- options(repos =
c(CRAN="http://probability.ca/cran",CRANextra="http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin";))
pkgs <- ------ a character vector of packages on CRAN ------
oldPkgs <- old[intersect(pkgs, rownames(old)),,drop=FALSE]
if (length(oldPkgs))
update.packages(oldPkgs = oldPkgs)
pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, installed)
if (length(pkgs))
install.packages(pkgs, dep=c("Depends", "Imports"))
options(repos = c(options("repos"),
"R-forge"="http://R-Forge.R-project.org";))
pkgs <- ------ packages to install from R-forge ------
oldPkgs <- old[intersect(pkgs, rownames(old)),,drop=FALSE]
if (length(oldPkgs))
update.packages(oldPkgs = oldPkgs)
pkgs <- setdiff("patchDVI", installed)
if (length(pkgs))
install.packages(pkgs)
MyR <- ------ the source directory where I keep my own packages ------
pkgs <- ------ packages to install from local source ------
pkgs <- setdiff(pkgs, installed)
if (length(pkgs))
install.packages(file.path(MyR, pkgs), type="source", repos=NULL)
options(oldoptions)
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