[R] How to rebuild an R package that has been removed from CRAN?

R. Michael Weylandt michael.weylandt at gmail.com
Sat Aug 24 02:58:25 CEST 2013


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:07 PM, Shang Zuofeng <zuofengshang at gmail.com> wrote:
> So this is an alternative method. The package can be installed from
> source() rather than rebuilt. Although the warnings exist, the package
> itself may still be useful. Can you let me know how to installed from
> source?
>

Note that these discussions don't have anything to do with the
source() function. Building from source has the sense of "primal
origin", not "source" the verb.

Cheers,
MW



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