R help - Sep 2007 - Create a "local" repository

I'd like to create a small "local" repository that would be used
to
install a package for a class of students at their home.  I don't want
to upload it to CRAN, as I don't think it should be disseminated at
that level.

What I'd like to do is:
> where="http://mysite.com/"
> install.packages("mypackage",contriburl=where)
When I try this, (after placing my mypackage_1.0.tar.gz file in the
main directory of http://mysite.com/, it responds, in R, when I want
to install the package:

Warning: unable to access index for repository http://mysite.com/

What do I need to do?

-Scott

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Scott K. Hyde
Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics
School of Computing
Brigham Young University -- Hawaii

Scott Hyde wrote:
> I'd like to create a small "local" repository that would be
used to
> install a package for a class of students at their home.  I don't want
> to upload it to CRAN, as I don't think it should be disseminated at
> that level.
> 
> What I'd like to do is:
> 
>> where="http://mysite.com/"
>> install.packages("mypackage",contriburl=where)
> 
> When I try this, (after placing my mypackage_1.0.tar.gz file in the
> main directory of http://mysite.com/, it responds, in R, when I want
> to install the package:
> 
> Warning: unable to access index for repository http://mysite.com/
> 
> What do I need to do?
You need a PACKAGES file in that directory that gives an index which 
packages are available.

See function write_PACKAGES() in package "tools".

Uwe Ligges

> 
> -Scott
>