R help - Oct 2018 - Installing packages in bulk

For a new installation of R-3.5.1 I want to install all packages on
another host. I prepared a file, R-libraries.R, which contains
install.packages('BH, ...') for the entire list.

   When I source() this file on the new host and select a CRAN mirror I see
the message, "Warning message:
package 'BH,covr, <etc>
[...truncated]

   Do I need a space after each comma or is there something else wrong with
my syntax?

Rich

Your syntax is wrong.

pkgs

character ***vector*** of the names of packages

See the example at the end of ?install.packages.

"a","b", "c"  is **not** a vector
c("a", "b", "c")  **is** a vector.

-- Bert

Bert Gunter

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along and
sticking things into it."
-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:04 PM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
wrote:
>    For a new installation of R-3.5.1 I want to install all packages on
> another host. I prepared a file, R-libraries.R, which contains
> install.packages('BH, ...') for the entire list.
>
>    When I source() this file on the new host and select a CRAN mirror I see
> the message, "Warning message:
> package 'BH,covr, <etc>
> [...truncated]
>
>    Do I need a space after each comma or is there something else wrong with
> my syntax?
>
> Rich
>
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On Mon, 1 Oct 2018, Bert Gunter wrote:
> Your syntax is wrong.
> See the example at the end of ?install.packages.
Bert,

   Thank you.

Rich