[R] Re: [BioC] Makefile for installing all available packages

[A.J. Rossini]

I should mention that this function is more useful after calling

  update.packages()

best,
-tony


rossini at blindglobe.net (A.J. Rossini) writes:

> Jonathan Baron <baron at psych.upenn.edu> writes:
>
>> On 04/14/04 11:42, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>>>On Wed, 14 Apr 2004 17:07:42 +0200, Kasper Daniel Hansen
>>><k.hansen at biostat.ku.dk> wrote :
>>>>You do not find it a bit overkill to install all of CRAN per default?
>>>
>>>I can see two situations where this would be desirable:
>>>
>>>On a laptop or other machine that is often not connected to the net:
>>>install everything just in case you might want something and can't go
>>>to CRAN for it.
>>>
>>>In a public lab where users have limited ability to install packages,
>>>it's good to have them all there.
>>
>> A third reason:  You run a search site where you want people to
>> be able to search all the help files, such as the one at the end
>> of my sig.
>>
>> May 1, after updating to R-1.9, I plan to try this script to see
>> if it knows not to update files that haven't changed, and add
>> some other odds and ends that I have installed.
>
> On a single R installation, an alternative R function to accomplish
> something similar is: 
>
> installNewCRANPackages <- function() {
>   ## (C) A.J. Rossini, 2002--2004                       
>   test2 <-  packageStatus()$avail["Status"]
>   install.packages(row.names(test2)[which(test2$Status=="not installed")])
> }
>
> which gratuitiously installs all new packages whether you want them or
> not.
>
> best,
> -tony
>
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