You want to take the sysad by the hairy of his chinny-chin-chin and explain the issue in short sentences. He or she ought to be able produce a solution without difficulty, and should not have any problems about doing so. It IS their job.
JD On Monday 20 February 2006 17:07, Erin Hodgess wrote: > Dear R People: > > Here is yet another strange problem. > > I'm using R in one of my classes. However, the computer lab has something > called "Deep Freeze" and the students cannot save anything to the hard > drive. > > I had R installed and things were working well. They would save their > .Rdata files to disks. > > Now, we need to add more packages. We can't download and we can't > bring them in via zip files (already tried both!) When the zip files > are expanded, of course they build new directories...... > > I'm completely annoyed because learning to download packages > and installing them from local zips are actually important tasks! > We're also losing good teaching/learning time! > > Anyhow, what I would like to do is produce a sort of combination R > installation exe with our extra libraries as part of the package. > > Does anyone have any suggestions on how this could be done, please? > > This is R for Windows, Version 2.2.1 > > Thanks for any help! Sorry about the totally weird problem! > > Sincerely, > Erin Hodgess > Associate Professor > Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences > University of Houston - Downtown > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ______________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________ 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