[R] Getting all R packages

[Emmanuel Paradis]

At 16:19 03/09/02 +0100, you wrote:
>Rather than spend a tedious interactive session
>picking several (in fact most) of the library
>packages off the CRAN site one by one, it would
>be handy to be able to grab the lot in one go
>(they seem to add up to about 24MB, so it's not
>a huge download).
>
>Is there a way to do this?

Look at the help:

    ?update.packages

Several functions are documented there. It sounds that the command:

    download.packages(CRAN.packages()[, 1], destdir = "/dest/dir")

will do what you want (assuming that you just want to download the
packages, not install them), but I haven't tested it.

Hope this helps.

EP

>Thanks for the help.
>Ted.
>
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