contriburl: URL of the contrib section of CRAN.
The good news is that R-devel does support local installation, so R 2.1.0 will.
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Paul Roebuck wrote:
On Sat, 1 Jan 2005, Roger D. Peng wrote:
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
By the way, do you get this error in a recent version of R (say >= 1.9.1). I believe install.packages() has changed since 1.9.0. For example, see the thread starting here
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2004-July/053001.html
Roger,
Thanks for that link which helped me diagnose the problem. I observed the same error you observed (.../053047.html). Still think it's kind of hinky to pass an uninitialized variable (tmpd) to another method and count on it doing something though.
I wondered if something had changed as well, but noticed no change glancing at the source for install.packages on 2.0.1 (OS X). But underneath, the behavior was different since I got a different error message which noted the lack of a PACKAGES file. That was enough to get the rest to work...
Hopefully this will help my case for updating to the current version on our shared Un*x workstations since I can now point to a definitive bug that impacted my work due to using an older version of this software.
-------- R : Copyright 2004, The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Version 2.0.1 (2004-11-15), ISBN 3-900051-07-0
parentdir <- file.path(path.expand("~"), "Projects", "cvknn") uri.parentdir <- paste("file://", parentdir, sep = "") savewd <- getwd() setwd(parentdir) rmsymlink <- FALSE if (file.exists("PACKAGES") == FALSE) { file.symlink(file.path("mypkg", "DESCRIPTION"), "PACKAGES") rmsymlink <- TRUE } install.packages("mypkg",+ contriburl = uri.parentdir, + lib = Sys.getenv("R_LIBS"))if (rmsymlink) file.remove("PACKAGES") setwd(savewd)
Perhaps the documentation for the 'contriburl' should specify that it is expecting 'URL of the directory of the contrib section of CRAN'.
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