download.packages

From utils v3.3.2 by R-core R-core@R-project.org

Download Packages from CRAN-like Repositories

These functions can be used to automatically compare the version numbers of installed packages with the newest available version on the repositories and update outdated packages on the fly.

Keywords: utilities

Usage

download.packages(pkgs, destdir, available = NULL,
                  repos = getOption("repos"),
                  contriburl = contrib.url(repos, type),
                  method, type = getOption("pkgType"), …)

Arguments

pkgs: character vector of the names of packages whose latest available versions should be downloaded from the repositories.
destdir: directory where downloaded packages are to be stored.
available: an object as returned by available.packages listing packages available at the repositories, or NULL which makes an internal call to available.packages.
repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use, i.e., the URL of the CRAN master such as "https://cran.r-project.org" or its Statlib mirror, "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN".
contriburl: URL(s) of the contrib sections of the repositories. Use this argument only if your repository mirror is incomplete, e.g., because you burned only the contrib section on a CD. Overrides argument repos.
method: Download method, see download.file.
type: character string, indicate which type of packages: see install.packages.
…: additional arguments to be passed to download.file.

Details

download.packages takes a list of package names and a destination directory, downloads the newest versions and saves them in destdir. If the list of available packages is not given as argument, it is obtained from repositories. If a repository is local, i.e. the URL starts with "file:", then the packages are not downloaded but used directly. Both "file:" and "file:///" are allowed as prefixes to a file path. Use the latter only for URLs: see url for their interpretation. (Other forms of file:// URLs are not supported.)

Value

A two-column matrix of names and destination file names of those packages successfully downloaded. If packages are not available or there is a problem with the download, suitable warnings are given.

Community examples

wackwoolhe@gmail.com at Jan 31, 2019 utils v3.5.2

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