On 27 July 2009 at 14:55, Aaron Hicks wrote:
| It feels like I should be able to do something like:
|
| R CMD INSTALL lib='/usr/lib64/R/library' repos='http://proxy.url/cran' package
Here's what I do using littler, you can substitute Rscript as well:
#!/usr/bin/env r
#
# a simple example to install one or more packages
if (is.null(argv) | length(argv)<1) {
cat("Usage: installr.r pkg1 [pkg2 pkg3 ...]\n")
q()
}
## adjust as necessary, see help('download.packages')
repos <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org";
## this makes sense on Debian where no packages touch /usr/local
lib.loc <- "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library"
install.packages(argv, lib.loc, repos, dependencies=TRUE)
That way, I just say 'install.r foo bar baz' and these packages, plus their
Depends:, will get installed.
[ That said, I actually don't do that anymore because we now have cran2deb so
I can just say 'apt-get install r-cran-foo r-cran-bar r-cran-baz' but that is
a special case for Debian and pretty recent as per the announcement a few
days ago. ]
| We have a bunch of servers (compute nodes in a Rocks cluster) in an isolated
subnet, there is a basic pass-through proxy set up on the firewall (the head
node) which just passes HTTP requests through to our nearest CRAN mirror.
|
| when using install. packages it's easy to make R install from the repository
with the repos='address' option, but I can't figure out how do this from the
command line.
|
| Is there a command line option for this? Currently I'm doing it using an R
script, but that's causing issues because it's not 'visible' to the installer.
|
| This would greatly streamline R installation with a standard package set.
The repos argument can otherwise be set in ~/.Rprofile or Rprofile.site.
Dirk
--
Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions.
______________________________________________
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.
