inst/installLocalSourcepackage.r

In leeper/segue: A segue into parallel processing on Amazon's Web Services. Includes a parallel lapply function for the Elastic Map Reduce (EMR) engine

#!/usr/bin/env r
#
# a simple example to install one or more packages

if (is.null(argv) | length(argv)<1) {

  cat("Usage: installr.r pkg1 [pkg2 pkg3 ...]\n")
  q()

}

## adjust as necessary, see help('download.packages')
repos <- "http://cran.us.r-project.org"

## this makes sense on Debian where no packages touch /usr/local
lib.loc <- "/usr/lib/R/library"

install.packages(argv, repos = NULL, type="source", lib=lib.loc)