download.lib: Downloading source and PDF version of R packages

In erer: Empirical Research in Economics with R

Downloading source and PDF version of R packages

Description

This function can download three documents for each package: zip version, source version (tar.gz), and PDF manual.

Usage

download.lib(pkgs, destdir = getwd(), mode = "wb", 
  pdf.url = "http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/", 
  f.zip = TRUE, f.pdf = TRUE)

Arguments

pkgs	A character vector for the names of one or multiple packages
destdir	The directory where documents are saved (e.g., C:/myFile; the default directory is the current working directory.
mode	The argument for download.file; the default is 'wb' for PDF version.
pdf.url	The url for PDF documents online.
f.zip	A logical value indicating whether a zip version is downloaded; by default, a zip version is downloaded by download.packages
f.pdf	A logical value indicating whether a PDF mannual for a package should be downloaded from the internet.

Details

This function is mainly used to download the source version of one or multiple packages. A zip version and a PDF manual can also be downloaded at the same time.

Value

Return the packge names.

Author(s)

Changyou Sun ([e-mail])

See Also

download.packages; download.file.

Examples

## Not run: 
  download.lib(pkgs = 'erer', destdir = 'c:/aErer/Rcode', 
    f.zip = FALSE, f.pdf = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

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