Peter, i tried the file.choose() method of installing from local zip files; its easy to install few packages that way. but you see if there are many packages(say >10 or 12), then i wont be able to install the packages on which the packages that i want to install depend because i guess i cant set dependencies=TRUE by this method.
here is what i tried i replaced "http://my.local.cran" (code below) in Rprofile.site with "file://C:/R/packages/" and then did install.packages(c("pkg1", "pkg2", ...),dependencies=TRUE) in R console but dint succeed.. # set a CRAN mirror local({r <- getOption("repos") r["CRAN"] <- "http://my.local.cran/" options(repos=r)}) Would Appreciate help [[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.