R: Download R packages

browse.pkgs {utils}

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Download R packages

Description

Visual browsers for downloading R binary or source packages from a repository, usually invoked from the Packages menu. browse.pkgs shows all available packages, browse.update.pkgs shows only installed packages with different version numbers on the repository.

Usage

browse.pkgs(where = c("CRAN", "BIOC"), type = c("binary", "source"),
            contriburl, global = FALSE)

browse.update.pkgs(where = c("CRAN", "BIOC"), type = c("binary","source"),
                   in.place = TRUE)

Arguments

where

Browse "CRAN" or "BIOConductor"

type

Type of package to download

contriburl

Different URL to browse. Overrides where

global

Not implemented

in.place

Put the new package in the same directory as the old version

Details

The CRAN and BIOC URLs are set in R with Aqua GUI Preferences. Packages are install in .libPaths()[1], which is typically ‘~/Library/R/library’.

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