Hi
I am using Ubuntu Hardy, and I installing many packages from source. I am
keeping my R packages fairly up to date.
My question is: is there a way, of keeping the source packages, so that when
I am installing a new version of R, an update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) will
only fetch the packages when newer ones are available, but otherwise will
use the local copies?
To rephrase it, is it possible to have some kind of local repository for the
source packages which are installed, so that only packages are downloaded
when newer ones are available? I could use destdir to specify the directory
in which to save the source files of the packages, but how can I use this
directory as a first choice, and only download if a newer version exists?
Rainer
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