R help - Feb 2006 - Installing packages without clicking

I need to install several (too many) packages from local *.zip
files.

is there any form to do it  without clicking?

I'm asking for a R code that allow me perform these task.



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Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera.
Profesor Asistente.
Departamento de Matem??ticas y estad??stica.
Universidad de C??rdoba.

On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera wrote:
> I need to install several (too many) packages from local *.zip
> files.
>
> is there any form to do it  without clicking?
>
> I'm asking for a R code that allow me perform these task.
See ?install.packages.

You seem to be using Windows (you did not say).  So the help page says

    repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
           i.e., the URL of the CRAN master such as
           '"http://cran.r-project.org"' or its Statlib
mirror,
           '"http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN"'. Can be
'NULL' to install
           from local '.zip' files.

and so all you need is

install.packages(c("my1.zip", "my2.zip"), repos = NULL)



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> I need to install several (too many) packages from local *.zip
> files.
> 
Are you aware of being able to select multiple .zip files at one time
using SHIFT-click or CTRL-click?
> is there any form to do it  without clicking?
> 
> I'm asking for a R code that allow me perform these task.
> 
You could just do what the clicking does, i.e. call the function
install.packages() with appropriate parameters.  See
utils:::menuInstallLocal

Hope this helps,
Ray Brownrigg