[R] Installing Packages from a Local Repository
Prof Brian Ripley
ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Sat Dec 15 19:06:00 CET 2012
On 15/12/2012 17:36, Uwe Ligges wrote:
> You have to specify the repository as
>
> "file:Q:/Integrated Planning/R"
>
> (and I am not entirely sure if blanks are supported).
Actually, that's not right: see ?url. All URI schemes start like
file:// . For Windows the help says
In this form the path is relative to the root of the filesystem,
not a Windows concept. The standard form on Windows is
‘file:///d:/R/repos’: for compatibility with earlier versions of R
and Unix versions, any other form is parsed as R as ‘file://’ plus
‘path_to_file’. Also, backslashes are accepted within the path
even though RFC1738 does not allow them.
Spaces should work, since it is R which converts this to a filepath (in
a real URI there are lots of restrictions and spaces need to be encoded
if the restrictions are enforced). But file:// URIs on Windows are a
minefield.
>
> Best,
> Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
> On 13.12.2012 11:52, Tommy O'Dell wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> I've followed the instructions from R-Admin Section 6.6 for creating a
>> local repository. I've modified my Rprofile.site file to add the local
>> repository to my repos, but I haven't been able to successfully
>> install my
>> package from the repo.
>>
>> Here's the code that I've run.
>>
>> ##################################
>> sessionInfo()
>> getOption("repos")
>> setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
>> tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
>>
>> install.packages("RTIO")
>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
>> "win.binary")
>>
>> unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))
>>
>> ############
>>
>>
>> And here it is with output included:
>> ###########
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 2.15.1 (2012-06-22)
>> Platform: i386-pc-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
>>
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Australia.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_Australia.1252
>> LC_MONETARY=English_Australia.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>> LC_TIME=English_Australia.1252
>>
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
>>
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] tools_2.15.1
>>> getOption("repos")
>> CRAN
>> CRANextra
>> MyLocal
>> "http://cran.ms.unimelb.edu.au/" "http://www.stats.
>> ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin"
>> "file://Q:/Integrated Planning/R"
>>> setwd("Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
>>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
>> [1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
>>> tools::write_PACKAGES("bin/windows/contrib/2.15", type = "win.binary")
>>> list.files(path = ".", recursive = TRUE)
>> [1] "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES"
>> "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"
>> "bin/windows/contrib/2.15/RTIO_0.1-2.zip"
>>>
>>> install.packages("RTIO")
>> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> cannot open compressed file '//Q:/Integrated
>> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES', probable reason 'No such
>> file or directory'
>> Error in install.packages : cannot open the connection
>>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R")
>> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
>> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> package ‘RTIO’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>>> install.packages("RTIO", repos = "Q:/Integrated Planning/R", type =
>> "win.binary")
>> Installing package(s) into ‘C:/Program Files/R/R-2.15.1/library’
>> (as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> unable to access index for repository Q:/Integrated
>> Planning/R/bin/windows/contrib/2.15
>> Warning in install.packages :
>> package ‘RTIO’ is not available (for R version 2.15.1)
>>>
>>>
>> unlink(c("bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES","bin/windows/contrib/2.15/PACKAGES.gz"))
>>
>>>
>> #######################################
>>
>> I'd really like to be able to use "install.packages("RTIO")" without
>> having
>> to specify the repo, as this will make it easy for our other less
>> experienced R users.
>>
>> Any ideas why I get "warning: cannot open compressed file" and "error:
>> cannot open the connection"? As far as I can tell, I've followed the
>> R-Admin 6.6 instructions exactly.
>>
>> If it matters, Q: is a mapped network drive.
>>
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>>
>>
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