installPackages
From R.utils v2.0.0
by Henrik Bengtsson
Install R packages by name or URL
Install R packages by name or URL.
- Keywords
- file
Usage
## S3 method for class 'default':
installPackages(pkgs, types="auto", repos=getOption("repos"), ..., destPath=".",
cleanup=TRUE)
Arguments
- pkgs
- A
character
vector
specifying the names and/or the URLs of the R packages to be installed. - types
- A
character
vector
of corresponding package types. - repos
- A
character
vector
of package repository URLs. - ...
- Additional arguments passed to
install.packages
. - destPath
- Path where any downloaded files are saved.
- cleanup
- If
TRUE
, downloaded and successfully installed package files are removed, otherwise not.
Value
- Returns nothing.
Limitations
This method cannot install any packages that are already in use.
Certain packages are always in use when calling this method, e.g.
Examples
installPackages("R.rsp")
installPackages("http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/R.rsp/R.rsp_0.8.2.tar.gz")
installPackages("http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/R.rsp_0.9.17.zip")
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