see below. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley <rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: > >> I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot >> find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install >> the help system? > > I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd > files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files. > > All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to > study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. One possibility would > be to run a loop of calls to R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help > (which some people have asked for in the past). > > However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and > discard the parts you don't want. > Thanks! Finally, I am back to this, and below is my solution as a shell script (bash, debian):
# shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, # ( *.tar.gz files) # to ~/R/allinstall # for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z do if [ -f $FILE ] then nice R CMD INSTALL --library=~/R/allinstall --no-test-load \ --no-configure --html --no-libs --no-exec $FILE \ || echo "Problems encountered during processing of $FILE" & fi done # However, this do not work! When I run the command within the loop directly in a shell, I can see the results in ~/R/allinstall, but run as above, I can see no results (apart from a lot of cpu cycles) Kjetil > -- > Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk > 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.