[R] update.packages - delete downloaded - N

[Heinz Tuechler]

Thank you for the hint regarding the destdir parameter of update.packages.

Heinz Tüchler

At 12:15 15.02.2005 +0100, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>Heinz Tuechler wrote:
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>> Hello,
>> 
>> Using Update Packages from CRAN in R Version 2.0.1 Patched (2005-01-15)
>> under Windows 98, I found it tricky to save the downloaded files.
>> Even if I answer "N" to the question, if the downloaded files should be
>> deleted, they are deleted after R is quitted. I understood that I have to
>> copy them to a different location before quitting R. Is this an intended
>> behavoiur of R or did I miss some instruction?
>
>Yes, intended, yes, you missed "destdir":
>
>It is intended to save in tempdir() by default.
>You can specify argument "destdir", if you want something different.
>
>Uwe Ligges
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>> Heinz Tüchler
>> 
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