Dear list, Is it possible to install a BioConductor package from a local path? I.e. I downloaded a BioConductor package to a local directory on my machine. Now I would like to install it. The package reposTools allows to install packages from repositories. Does it need a repository to use reposTools? Thanks in advance, Axel > sessionInfo() R version 2.2.0, 2005-10-06, i686-pc-linux-gnu attached base packages: [1] "tools" "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" [7] "datasets" "base" other attached packages: reposTools "1.8.0" -- ******************************************* Dipl. Math. ETH Axel Rasche Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics Department Lehrach (Vertebrate Genomics) Ihnestrasse 63-73 D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem GERMANY Tel. ++49-30-8413-1289 Fax ++49-30-8413-1380

Hi Axel, Try this: install.packages("theExactPathAndNameOfTheLocalPackage", repos=NULL) HTH, Ting-Yuan ______________________________________ Ting-Yuan Liu Program in Computational Biology Division of Public Health Sciences Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Seattle, WA, USA ______________________________________ On Wed, 22 Feb 2006, Axel Rasche wrote: > Dear list, > > Is it possible to install a BioConductor package from a local path? > > I.e. I downloaded a BioConductor package to a local directory on my > machine. Now I would like to install it. The package reposTools allows > to install packages from repositories. Does it need a repository to use > reposTools? > > Thanks in advance, > Axel > > > > sessionInfo() > R version 2.2.0, 2005-10-06, i686-pc-linux-gnu > > attached base packages: > [1] "tools" "methods" "stats" "graphics" "grDevices" "utils" > [7] "datasets" "base" > > other attached packages: > reposTools > "1.8.0" > > > -- > ******************************************* > Dipl. Math. ETH Axel Rasche > Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics > Department Lehrach (Vertebrate Genomics) > Ihnestrasse 63-73 > D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem > GERMANY > > Tel. ++49-30-8413-1289 > Fax ++49-30-8413-1380 > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor >