[BioC] installing meta packages on Unix

[Seth Falcon]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 04:17:20PM -0800, Lana Schaffer wrote:
> I am trying to install meta packages on Unix, so I have downloaded the
> "source" link to my unix directory 

So far, so good.

> and then to the R-2.0.1/library directory.  

You should have to put things in that directory manually.  R takes care
of putting packages there during the install process.  

In general, if you download a source package in tar.gz format, you can
try the following to install it:

R CMD INSTALL path/to/some/pkg.tar.gz

+ seth