On 27 October 2008 at 14:48, Christopher David Desjardins wrote: | You could use install.packages(). What I usually do is download the | tarball of interest from CRAN and as root run | | R CMD INSTALL foo.tar.gz
Correct, even though you have the manual download. And if you do 'sudo apt-get install litter' you get r with examples below /usr/share. So I usuall just do $ sudo install.r foo which finds, downloads and installs foo from CRAN. I set my default repo in ~/.Rprofile. Likewise we also have update.r in littler. You need to copy, link or alias these from /usr/share/doc/littler/examples to somewhere in your path, e.g. ~/bin (which you'd need to add to $PATH) or /usr/local/bin. | This will by default install to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library | | Then you can call it in R with library(foo) | | I believe you can specify where you want to install it to with the -l | option. ?Install for more details. Correct. | On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:28 +0100, Arnaud Battistella wrote: | > Hi, | > I was wondering what is the recommended way to install the "vars" package in | > debian. And for that matter, how do you usually install R packages not | > included in debian? I guess I could simply use install.packages() but I'm | > afraid of ending up with several versions of the same package which could be | > bad I guess... Years ago we made the choice set for you at the end of /etc/R/Renviron : by having R_LIBS_SITE point to three different directories, we can separate - R's recommended packages via r-cran-* in /usr/lib/R/library - Other R packages installed via Debian's r-cran-* in /usr/lib/R/site-library - Everything else via install.packages() into /usr/local/lib/R/site-library You can still add more for campus-wide package, personal libraries, ... in other directories if you wish, but you can also 'just use' this defaults. Works for most of us :) Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian