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. R.methodsS3, R.oo, and R.utils.

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")

Documentation reproduced from package R.utils, version 2.0.0, License: LGPL (>= 2.1)

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