utils (version 3.3)

contrib.url: Find Appropriate Paths in CRAN-like Repositories

Description

contrib.url adds the appropriate type-specific path within a repository to each URL in repos.

Usage

contrib.url(repos, type = getOption("pkgType"))

Arguments

repos

character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use.

type

character string, indicating which type of packages: see install.packages.

Value

• A character vector of the same length as repos.

Details

If type = "both" this will use the source repository.

See Also

setRepositories to set options("repos"), the most common value used for argument repos.

available.packages, download.packages, install.packages.

The R Installation and Administration manual for how to set up a repository.