Hi Uwe and List, Thanks for your suggestions.
It's a complete repository with source Packages and the PACKAGES(.gz) index file under "src/contrib/". As mentioned: explicitly calling install.packages("PACKAGE_NAME", repos="file:///Users/arbeit/Documents/clarin/Open_Science/PMR2/", type="source"); works without any problems. But configuring the repository through R_HOME/etc/repositories and obmitting the repos argument to install.packages() is what I want and what doesn't work. Ideas? > And note that is must be a complete repository, i.e. packages in subdir > "./src/contrib". A user can use install.packages(....., type="source") if > you do not provide binaries in case they are expected by default. > > Uwe Ligges I knew about the type="source" argument to install.packages() but hoped there would be a way to permanently configure this as default for a source-only repository. Thanks, Ingmar Schuster -- Ingmar Schuster Natural Language Processing Group Department of Computer Science University of Leipzig Johannisgasse 26 04103 Leipzig, Germany Tel. +49 341 9732205 http://asv.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/en/staff/Ingmar_Schuster ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel