On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, Kuhn, Max wrote: > Professor Ripley, > >> You need the information from available.packages() to do the ordering, > so >> you need a non-NULL repository. This works if you convert your local >> collection into a local repository. You will need a PACKAGES file, but > >> tools::write_PACKAGES can re-create one for you. >> >> There are also dependency tools in package tools and on BioC. > > This is probably a better option for me given that my source files are a > little out of date. I couldn't get it to work though. > > I put the tar.gz files into a sub-directory (./src/contrib) > > I ran write_PACAKGES referencing that directory and type = "source" and > verbose = TRUE. No error messages were given and it resulted in PACKAGES > and PACKAGES.gz files that appeared to have all the right info in it. > > I figured out the package names by parsing the names of the tar.gz > files. > > I then ran > > install.packages(pckList[1:3], > repos = "/home/max/tmp/r-2.5.1-pkgs-updated/src/contrib", > contriburl = "/home/max/tmp/r-2.5.1-pkgs-updated/src/contrib", > type = "source")
It does say 'URL(s)', hence repos = "file:///home/max/tmp/r-2.5.1-pkgs-updated" is I think all you need. Here's a (working) example local to me: > install.packages("yags", repos="file:///data/ftp/pub/RWin") > > No packages were installed and I had the warnings: > > Warning: unable to access index for repository > /home/max/tmp/r-2.5.1-pkgs-updated/src/contrib > Warning message: > packages 'Cairo', 'Design', 'ElemStatLearn' are not available in: > install.packages(pckList[1:3], repos = > "/home/max/tmp/r-2.5.1-pkgs-updated/src/contrib", > > (those particular packages are in ./src/contrib.) I also tried different > variations of using the file names etc. > > I'm assuming that I don't have a proper repository. Am I missing > something obvious here and/or is there some documentation on what the > elements of a repository are? There is, in the R-admin manual. > Thanks again, > > Max > -- Brian D. Ripley, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel