

INSTALL {base}                               R Documentation

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_D_e_s_c_r_i_p_t_i_o_n_:

     To install packages into the default library tree
     (which is rooted at `$R_HOME/library'), do `R INSTALL
     pkgs'.

     To install into the library tree `lib' instead of the
     default one, use `R INSTALL -l lib pkgs'.

_U_s_a_g_e_:

     R INSTALL [options] [-l lib] pkgs

_A_r_g_u_m_e_n_t_s_:

    pkgs: A list with the path names of the packages to be
          installed.

     lib: the path name of the R library tree to install to.

 options: a list of options through which in particular the
          build process for help files can be controlled.
          If `--no-docs' is given, no help files are built.
          `--no-text', `--no-html', and `--no-latex' sup-
          press creating the text, HTML, and LaTeX versions,
          respectively.  The default is to build help files
          in all three versions.

_D_e_t_a_i_l_s_:

     Both `lib' and the elements of `pkgs' may be absolute
     or relative path names. `pkgs' can also contain name of
     package archive files of the form `pkg_version.tar.gz'
     as obtained from CRAN, these are then extracted in a
     temporary directory.

     For checking (via the examples in the help files
     `man/*.Rd', use `R CMD check [-l lib] <pkg>', use `R
     CMD check --help' for more information.

_S_e_e _A_l_s_o_:

     `REMOVE', and `library' for information on using sev-
     eral library trees and creating packages; `update.pack-
     ages' for automatic update of packages using the inter-
     net.

