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-roger
Paul Roebuck wrote:
Wish to install a local source package on Un*x platform from within R. Same thing as I can accomplish from cmdline as
$ export R_LIBS=~/R/library $ cd /path/to/pkg $ R CMD INSTALL -l $R_LIBS <pkgname>
So, how do you go about this anyway? And isn't this a bug in 'install.packages'?
------- $ R
R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 1.9.0 (2004-04-12), ISBN 3-900051-00-3
file.pkg <- "mypkg_0.1.tar.gz" path.pkg <- file.path(path.expand("~"), "cvknn", file.pkg) file.exists(path.pkg)
[1] TRUE
uri.pkg <- paste("file://", path.pkg, sep = "") install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"))
Error in file.info(x) : Object "tmpd" not found
traceback()
4: file.info(x) 3: dirTest(destdir) 2: download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = available, contriburl = contriburl, method = method) 1: install.packages(contriburl = uri.pkg, lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"))
version
_ platform sparc-sun-solaris2.9 arch sparc os solaris2.9 system sparc, solaris2.9 status major 1 minor 9.0 year 2004 month 04 day 12 language R
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