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R.utils

installPackages

Install R packages by name or URL

Description

Install R packages by name or URL.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
installPackages(pkgs, types="auto", repos=getOption("repos"), ..., destPath=".",
  cleanup=TRUE)

Arguments

`pkgs`	A `character` `vector` specifying the names and/or the URLs of the R packages to be installed.
`types`	A `character` `vector` of corresponding package types.
`repos`	A `character` `vector` of package repository URLs.
`...`	Additional arguments passed to `install.packages`.
`destPath`	Path where any downloaded files are saved.
`cleanup`	If `TRUE`, downloaded and successfully installed package files are removed, otherwise not.

Value

Returns nothing.

Limitations

This method cannot install any packages that are already in use. Certain packages are always in use when calling this method, e.g. R.methodsS3, R.oo, and R.utils.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson

Examples

## Not run: 
 installPackages("R.rsp")
 installPackages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/R.rsp/R.rsp_0.8.2.tar.gz")
 installPackages("https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.0/R.rsp_0.44.0.zip")

## End(Not run)

R.utils

Various Programming Utilities

v2.10.1

LGPL (>= 2.1)

Authors

Henrik Bengtsson [aut, cre, cph]

Initial release

installPackages

Description

Usage

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Value

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R.utils

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