OK, my journey to make lab machines automagically install & update all desirable R packages is nearing an end! The only question I have now is this: How can I control where the system prints the *.Rout file that is created automatically when the R batch program runs. In "man R" I don't find any information about it. When the cron job runs "R_installAll.sh" (see below), I'd like to re-direct it to someplace that ordinary users can read.
Here's the shell script I will schedule with cron ------------R_installAll.sh ---------- #!/bin/bash R CMD BATCH /usr/local/bin/R_installAll.R -------------------------------------- And here's the R program -------------R_installAll.R------------- # Paul Johnson <pauljohn _AT_ ku.edu> 2005-08-31 # This should update and then install all packages, except for # ones I exclude because they don't work or we don't want them. options(repos = "http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/";) update.packages(ask=F) theNew <- new.packages() failPackages <- c("BRugs","GDD","gtkDevice","gap","gnomeGUI","mimR","ncdf","pathmix","rcdd","rgdal","rpvm", "Rmpi","RQuantLib","RMySQL", "RNetCDF","RODBC","ROracle","RScaLAPACK","rsprng","RWinEdt","taskPR") shouldFail <- theNew %in% failPackages install.packages( theNew[!shouldFail],dependencies=T) # VGAM is not in CRAN yet, but Zelig wants it. # install.packages("VGAM", CRAN="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee";); update.packages(CRAN="http://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~yee";) -------------------------------------- -- Paul E. Johnson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Political Science http://lark.cc.ku.edu/~pauljohn 1541 Lilac Lane, Rm 504 University of Kansas Office: (785) 864-9086 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-3177 FAX: (785) 864-5700 ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
