[R] Installing packages from command line on Linux RHEL4

Kermit Short
2007-05-21T17:37:20Z

Greetings.

   I am a System Administrator, and thus have very little knowledge of R
itself.  I have been asked to install a list of some 200 packages (from
CRAM) to R.  Rather than installing each package manually, I was hoping I
could script this.  I've written a BASH script that hopefully will do this,
but I'm wondering about the Mirror Selection portion of the installation
process.  I've looked and can't find anywhere a parameter to supply that
specifies a mirror to use so that I don't have to manually select it for
each package I want to install.  In this case, with nearly 200 packages to
install, this could become quite tedious.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks!



-Kermit Short

K_short@lanl.gov


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