On 21/02/2012 03:31, Xiong Deng wrote:> Hi,
>
> I am working on a stand-alone Linux Redhat machine, which is disconnected
> to outside...But I need R to be installed on the machine....
>
> The only way available, so far as I know, is to download all the packages
> first and then copy to the machine and finally install them locally...
>
> But how can I download all the packages instead of using the
> install.packages(....) ?
The simplest way is to create a local CRAN mirror, then use a file://
URL to refer to it.
The part of CRAN you need is ca 2GB at present. I use an rsync script
something like
rsync -rvCtL --delete --include="*.tar.gz"
--include="PACKAGES*"
--exclude="*/*" cran.r-project.org::CRAN/src/contrib .
(so as not to mirror the 16GB Archive) and access it via
contriburl="file:///.../R/packages/contrib"
> Thanks
> Xiong
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