[R] Installing R packages in windows

[Uwe Ligges]

Vikas Rawal wrote:

> I need to install a selected set of packages on a number of machines (in a computer lab). Some of these machines are not connected to internet. Is it possible to download all the packages and make a kind of repository on a CD, and then install.packages from the CD?

Yes, just download the packages and install.packages with CRAN=NULL ...

Instead, you might want to mount the installed packages from a network 
volume instead, adding a second library path for R. So you only need to 
install stuff once.


Uwe Ligges



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