From cgb at datanalytics.com  Mon Mar  1 16:33:08 2010
From: cgb at datanalytics.com (Carlos J. Gil Bellosta)
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:33:08 +0100
Subject: [Rd] Idea for install.packages on (certain) linux distributions
Message-ID: <4B8BDE34.6070000@datanalytics.com>

Hello,

I do not know whether this idea would be considered useful or not. Or 
easy to implement.

But it is the case that on certain Linux distributions there are OS 
packages with precompiled R packages. However, install.packages (and 
related functions) download the source ones.

Would it be possible to add an extra "repository" (or option) on 
install.packages that would direct R to use the OS level package manager 
(apt-get, yum or the like) so as to install the precompiled packages 
from the distribution mirrors instead of the CRAN ones?

Best regards,

Carlos J. Gil Bellosta
http://www.datanalytics.com



[Rd] Idea for install.packages on (certain) linux distributions
Carlos J. Gil Bellosta