R help - Apr 2004 - Makefile for installing all available packages

Below is a makefile I wrote to download and install all available R packages
from the CRAN and BioConductor package repositories.  

The primary advantage of using this makefile instead of R's built-in
install.package() and update.packages() is the creation of a separate
installation log for every package.   Further, if make is invoked with
'-k',
failure to install a single package will not derail the installation of
other packages.

I hope that this script may be useful to other folks.  

-Greg

# Download and install all available R packages from the CRAN and
Bioconductor 
# package repositories
#
RCMD ?= R-1.9.0
WGET ?= wget -N -nd -r -A gz -r -l 1 -nv

PACKAGE_FILES = $(wildcard *.gz ) 
PACKAGE_LOGS  = $(addsuffix .log, $(basename $(basename $(PACKAGE_FILES))))

default: cran bioconductor install

cran: 
	$(WGET) "http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/PACKAGES.html"

bioconductor: bioCmain bioCcontrib bioCdata

bioCmain:
	$(WGET)
"http://www.bioconductor.org/repository/release1.3/package/html/index.html"

bioCcontrib:
	$(WGET) "http://www.bioconductor.org/contrib/index.html"

bioCdata:
	$(WGET) "http://www.bioconductor.org/data/metaData.html"

install: $(PACKAGE_LOGS)

%.log: %.tar.gz
	$(RCMD) INSTALL $< > $@.broken 2>&1 
	mv $@.broken $@



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On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 10:42:08PM -0400, Warnes, Gregory R
wrote:
> Below is a makefile I wrote to download and install all available R
packages
> from the CRAN and BioConductor package repositories.  
You do not find it a bit overkill to install all of CRAN per default?
-- 
Kasper Daniel Hansen, Research Assistant
Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen