Sorry, but I'm just an ignorant Linux user! I have a silly question. Situation: Now that R 2.1.0 is out (Thank you, to all concerned!) I'm about to go off and download it and all the packages. What this means in practice is trotting off to my "local" (and brand new) Internet Cafe with some CDs, where I can get the lot over a fast link and burn it onto a CD or two. However, believe it or not, this is a Windows shop. No problem about the main R 2.1.0 tar.gz file. That's a one-off. The problem arises with the packages (there are nearly 500 of them). If I were doing this on Linux, then I'd just give 'wget' the URL of the CRAN directory where they're all stored (no doubt with some exclusions for old stuff that I don't want), sit back, have a coffee or two, and then make the CDs. However, talking with the folk at the shop the other day, they didn't come up with an all-in-one operation for this, from which we concluded that it's a matter of clicking individually on each package file. If possible, I'd prefer to avoid this. So, Question to the Informed: Is there a Windows procedure which allows you to download everything in a directory (sorry, folder) in one operation? With thanks, and best wishes to all, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding at nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 21-Apr-05 Time: 08:56:18 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------
Hello! what about a simple FTP-Client for Windows (http://www.smartftp.com/) or wget for Windows: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ Good luck Patrick IfS Institut für Stadtforschung und Strukturpolitik GmbH Lützowstraße 93, 10785 Berlin, Deutschland Berlin-Charlottenburg 96 HRB 23 078 Tel. +49 (0)30 25 00 07-61, Fax +49 (0)30 2 62 90 02 Email Hausmann@ifsberlin.de zentrale Email IfS@ifsberlin.de Internet www.ifsberlin.de [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
There's built in FTP in windowsXP, which I assume is what they are likely to have. If they open file explorer there's an entry called "My Network Places". The problem I had seeing if it would work, was that ftp://cran.r-project.org/pub/R/ doesn't want to know me. Not that I was at all sure, that's where I should have been looking. So my issue was knowing if and where the packages are available through FTP. Tom> -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch > [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch]On Behalf Of Patrick Hausmann > Sent: Thursday, 21 April 2005 4:42 PM > To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R] Download advice please! > > > Hello! > what about a simple FTP-Client for Windows (http://www.smartftp.com/) > or wget for Windows: http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/ > > Good luck > Patrick > > IfS Institut f??r Stadtforschung und Strukturpolitik GmbH > L??tzowstra??e 93, 10785 Berlin, Deutschland > Berlin-Charlottenburg 96 HRB 23 078 > Tel. +49 (0)30 25 00 07-61, Fax +49 (0)30 2 62 90 02 > Email Hausmann at ifsberlin.de > zentrale Email IfS at ifsberlin.de > Internet www.ifsberlin.de > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >