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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