On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > To install from a local zip file, install.packages option repos=NULL. > Then, how can dependencies of the local zip file, which are located in > the repository of contributor packages, be automatically installed?
They cannot. You need a repository to know about dependencies, which are in the PACKAGES file. > Or, is there a better way than to tell the person installing from local > zip what the dependent files are, and to install them from the > repository first? Yes, create a local repository and use a file:// URL to access it. Details are in the R-admin manual (and in the archives of this list or R-devel). > Bill Morphet > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- 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-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.