R help - May 2012 - how to download source code, pdf manual for any package from internet?

i can get list of available packages by
> r<-available.packages()
No of available packages
> length(r[,1])
[1] 3739

single package name
> r[1,1]
[1] "ACCLMA"

i want download all packages  starting with "A" / "a"
alphabets,
with their source code, pdf manual/vignettes from internet


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sagarnikam123 <sagarnikam123 <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> i can get list of available packages by
> > r<-available.packages()
> 
> No of available packages
> > length(r[,1])
> [1] 3739
> 
> single package name
> > r[1,1]
> [1] "ACCLMA"
> 
> i want download all packages  starting with "A" / "a"
alphabets,
> with their source code, pdf manual/vignettes from internet
> 
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> 
> 
grep("^[Aa]",rownames(r),value=TRUE)

gets you the names of the 143 packages starting with A or a.

If you google ACCLMA you will find

http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ACCLMA/

with further links

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ACCLMA_1.0.tar.gz
http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ACCLMA/ACCLMA.pdf

You can use paste() and download.file() in a loop to get all of the
packages.

ACCLMA happens not to have any vignettes.  It's a little hard for me
to see how you can figure out the URLs of package-associated vignettes,
without web-scraping (which shouldn't actually be too hard, but I won't
illustrate here how to do it)

  You probably want to use the URL of your local mirror rather than
the main CRAN site when doing this.

  Ben Bolker