[R] Installing Packages from a Local Repository

[Uwe Ligges]

You have to specify the repository as

"file:Q:/Integrated Planning/R"

(and I am not entirely sure if blanks are supported).

Best,
Uwe Ligges



On 13.12.2012 11:52, Tommy O'Dell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've followed the instructions from R-Admin Section 6.6 for creating a
> local repository. I've modified my Rprofile.site file to add the local
> repository to my repos, but I haven't been able to successfully install my
> package from the repo.
>
> Here's the code that I've run.
>
> ##################################
> sessionInfo()
> getOption("repos")
> setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
> tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
>
> install.packages("RTIO")
> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
> "win.binary")
>
> unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))
> ############
>
>
> And here it is with output included:
> ###########
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>   LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
> LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.15.1
>> getOption("repos")
>                                  CRAN                            CRANextra
>                             MyLocal
>      "http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/" "http://www.stats. ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"
>     "file://Q:/Integrated Planning/R"
>> setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
> [1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
>> tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
> [1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES"
> "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"
> "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
>>
>> install.packages("RTIO")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning in install.packages :
>    cannot open compressed file '//Q:/Integrated
> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES', probable reason 'No such
> file or directory'
> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning in install.packages :
>    unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> Warning in install.packages :
>    package ‘RTIO’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
> "win.binary")
> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
> Warning in install.packages :
>    unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
> Warning in install.packages :
>    package ‘RTIO’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>>
>>
> unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))
>>
> #######################################
>
> I'd really like to be able to use "install.packages("RTIO")" without having
> to specify the repo, as this will make it easy for our other less
> experienced R users.
>
> Any ideas why I get "warning: cannot open compressed file" and "error:
> cannot open the connection"? As far as I can tell, I've followed the
> R-Admin 6.6 instructions exactly.
>
> If it matters, Q: is a mapped network drive.
>
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