R help - Jul 2006 - install.packages for local zip files

O/S: Linux
R version : 2.2.1

The R server doesn't have http internet access.  And the sys admins will 
not install the R libraries that I requested.  So I have downloaded the 
packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home 
directory on the server.  These are a series of *.tar.gz files.  I want 
to install the R libraries in my home directory, but I can't get it to 
work.  According to the install.packages documentation :

install.packages(pkgs, lib, repos = getOption("repos"),  contriburl = 
contrib.url(repos, type), method, available = NULL, destdir = NULL, 
installWithVers = FALSE, dependencies = FALSE, type =
getOption("pkgType"))

repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
       i.e., .... Can be 'NULL' to install from local '.tar.gz'
files.

contriburl: URL(s) of the contrib section of the repositories. ......
       Can be 'NULL' to install from local '.tar.gz' files.


 pkgs: character vector of the short names of packages/bundles whose
          current versions should be downloaded from the repositories.
          If 'repos = NULL', a character vector of file paths of
          '.tar.gz' files.  These can be source archives or binary
          package/bundle archive files (as created by 'R CMD build
          --binary'). ......

 lib: character vector giving the library directories where to install 
the packages.  Recycled as needed.

So I have issued a command like this:

 > install.packages(pkgs="~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz",
lib =
"~/Rlib", repos=NULL, contriburl=NULL)

Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available = 
available,  :
         no package '~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz' at the 
repositories

As far as I can tell, I've given it the full path to the zip file, the 
directory in which to install the library and I've set the repository 
path to 'NULL' to indicate that I'm installing from an already 
downloaded zip file.  But I'm missing something.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Dan

On 7/16/06, Daniel Gatti <dmgatti at mindspring.com>
wrote:
> O/S: Linux
> R version : 2.2.1
>
> The R server doesn't have http internet access.  And the sys admins
will
> not install the R libraries that I requested.  So I have downloaded the
> packages that I want to intall and have moved them into my home
> directory on the server.  These are a series of *.tar.gz files.  I want
> to install the R libraries in my home directory, but I can't get it to
> work.  According to the install.packages documentation :
>
> install.packages(pkgs, lib, repos = getOption("repos"), 
contriburl > contrib.url(repos, type), method, available = NULL, destdir =
NULL,
> installWithVers = FALSE, dependencies = FALSE, type =
getOption("pkgType"))
>
> repos: character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use,
>        i.e., .... Can be 'NULL' to install from local
'.tar.gz' files.
>
> contriburl: URL(s) of the contrib section of the repositories. ......
>        Can be 'NULL' to install from local '.tar.gz' files.
>
>
>  pkgs: character vector of the short names of packages/bundles whose
>           current versions should be downloaded from the repositories.
>           If 'repos = NULL', a character vector of file paths of
>           '.tar.gz' files.  These can be source archives or binary
>           package/bundle archive files (as created by 'R CMD build
>           --binary'). ......
>
>  lib: character vector giving the library directories where to install
> the packages.  Recycled as needed.
>
> So I have issued a command like this:
>
>  >
install.packages(pkgs="~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz", lib >
"~/Rlib", repos=NULL, contriburl=NULL)
>
> Warning in download.packages(pkgs, destdir = tmpd, available >
available,  :
>          no package '~/Rdownloads/hgug4112a_1.12.0.tar.gz' at the
> repositories
>
> As far as I can tell, I've given it the full path to the zip file, the
> directory in which to install the library and I've set the repository
> path to 'NULL' to indicate that I'm installing from an already
> downloaded zip file.  But I'm missing something.  Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
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Put your packages, for example, in directory "/dir/of/pkgs"
library(tools)
write_PACKAGES("/dir/of/pkgs")

and the package will be installed to "/dir/of/R/libs"

install.packages("NameOfPkgs",
                 lib="/dir/of/R/libs",
                 repos=NULL,
                 dependencies=TRUE,
                 contriburl="file:////dir/of/pkgs")

Best, Muhammad Subianto