download.packages
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compare the version numbers of installed packages with the newest available version on the repositories and update outdated packages on the fly.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, orNULL
which makes an internal call toavailable.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 argumentrepos
.- method
Download method, see
download.file
.- type
character string, indicate which type of packages: see
install.packages
and ‘Details’.- …
additional arguments to be passed to
download.file
andavailable.packages
.
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.)
For download.packages
, type = "both"
looks at source
packages only.
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.
See Also
available.packages
, contrib.url
.
The main use is by install.packages
.
See download.file
for how to handle proxies and
other options to monitor file transfers.
The ‘R Installation and Administration’ manual for how to set up a repository.
Community examples
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