[R] install packages from intranet

[Peter Aberline]

Hi,
 
I'm new to R. Apologies if this is a simple query, I've searched the mailing lists and docs but can't find a solution to my problem. 
 
I'm trying to make some packages available on our intranet. During development the 'intranet' is a webserver running on localhost. 
 
* When I call "install.packages" I get a mesage about not being able to access 'index for repository'. 
* The directories are viewable and can be seen through a web browser. 
* Web server is IIS running on Winows 7. 
* I've used the same paths on the web server as where the packages are located in the CRAN mirror's.
* I've tried setting setInternet2(TRUE), which was already set.
 
 
> r <- getOption("repos");
> r["CRAN"] = "http://localhost"
> r["CRANextra"] = "http://localhost/pub/RWin"
> options(repos=r)
> r
                       CRAN                   CRANextra
         "http://localhost" "http://localhost/pub/RWin"
 
> install.packages("abind")
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://localhost/bin/windows/cont
rib/2.13
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://localhost/pub/RWin/bin/win
dows/contrib/2.13
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package 'abind' is not available (for R version 2.13.1)
>
 
OR
 
> install.packages("abind", contriburl="http://localhost/bin/windows/contrib/2.13")
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://localhost/bin/windows/contrib/2.13
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘abind’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1)
 
OR 
 
>  install.packages("abind", contriburl="http://localhost/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/abind_1.3-0.zip")
Warning: unable to access index for repository http://localhost/bin/windows/contrib/2.13/abind_1.3-0.zip
Warning message:
In getDependencies(pkgs, dependencies, available, lib) :
  package ‘abind’ is not available (for R version 2.13.1)
> 
 
Can anyone give me any clues as to what I'm doing wrong? Does R need some kind of index file to map between the name 'abind' and the zip filename?
 
Many thanks
Peter.