utils (version 3.4.1)

contrib.url: Find Appropriate Paths in CRAN-like Repositories

Description

contrib.url adds the appropriate type-specific path within a repository to each URL in repos.

Usage

contrib.url(repos, type = getOption("pkgType"))

Arguments

repos

character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use.

type

character string, indicating which type of packages: see install.packages.

Value

A character vector of the same length as repos.

Details

If type = "both" this will use the source repository.

See Also

setRepositories to set options("repos"), the most common value used for argument repos.

available.packages, download.packages, install.packages.

The ‘R Installation and Administration’ manual for how to set up a repository.