Re: [R] installing ONLY the documentation files (Rd) for many packages?
see below. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system? I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files. All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. One possibility would be to run a loop of calls to R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help (which some people have asked for in the past). However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and discard the parts you don't want. Thanks! Finally, I am back to this, and below is my solution as a shell script (bash, debian): # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, # ( *.tar.gz files) # to ~/R/allinstall # for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z do if [ -f $FILE ] then nice R CMD INSTALL --library=~/R/allinstall --no-test-load\ --no-configure --html --no-libs --no-exec $FILE \ || echo Problems encountered during processing of $FILE fi done # However, this do not work! When I run the command within the loop directly in a shell, I can see the results in ~/R/allinstall, but run as above, I can see no results (apart from a lot of cpu cycles) Kjetil -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] installing ONLY the documentation files (Rd) for many packages?
see below. On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 11:50 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com wrote: see below. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 3:32 AM, Prof Brian Ripley rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk wrote: On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system? I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files. All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. One possibility would be to run a loop of calls to R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help (which some people have asked for in the past). However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and discard the parts you don't want. Thanks! Finally, I am back to this, and below is my solution as a shell script (bash, debian): # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, # ( *.tar.gz files) # to ~/R/allinstall # for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z do if [ -f $FILE ] then nice R CMD INSTALL --library=~/R/allinstall --no-test-load \ --no-configure --html --no-libs --no-exec $FILE \ || echo Problems encountered during processing of $FILE fi done # However, this do not work! When I run the command within the loop directly in a shell, I can see the results in ~/R/allinstall, but run as above, I can see no results (apart from a lot of cpu cycles) Kjetil Answering my own question: My script evolved to: # shell script to install all the packages in ~/R/allpackages, # to ~/R/allinstall . # for FILE in ~/R/allpackages/*z do if [ -f $FILE ] then nice -n 19 R CMD INSTALL --library=~/R/allinstall --no-test-load\ --no-configure --html --no-libs --no-exec --unsafe --no-R --no-demo --fake $FILE\ || echo Problems encountered during processing of $FILE fi done # However, this is still not right, because R CMD INSTALL still checs for dependencies, which is not necessary when only installing the help system. I will try to hack the R code in the tools package to see if I can add a new flag --no-check-deps kjetil -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
Re: [R] installing ONLY the documentation files (Rd) for many packages?
On Tue, 26 Oct 2010, Kjetil Halvorsen wrote: I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system? I am not sure what you actally want: R CMD INSTALL does not install the Rd files -- it installs a database of parsed Rd files. All things are possible in a programming language, but you would need to study the R code of INSTALL to see what to extract. One possibility would be to run a loop of calls to R CMD Rdconv to install HTML versions of help (which some people have asked for in the past). However, disk space is cheap, and I would simply install the packages and discard the parts you don't want. -- Brian D. Ripley, rip...@stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UKFax: +44 1865 272595 __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
[R] installing ONLY the documentation files (Rd) for many packages?
I have been searching the documentation for some time nmow, but cannot find it. It must be possible to download packages (many), but only install the help system? How? Kjetil __ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
