Hi list,

I have not been successful in finding out from the available
documentation how under Unix/Solaris to update a packages which I
downloaded from the net as the original *.tar.gz and stored in a local
file, say

(1) home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz

A lot of installed libraries are residing in

(2) home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/library/

but it is unclear to me, how to proceed, since in "Usage"

update.packages(lib.loc = NULL, repos = CRAN,

it says

"lib.loc  character vector describing the location of R library trees to
search through (and update packages therein)."

CRAN packages are residing in

(3) usr/local/lib/R/library/

How should I state my wish for "pack" to reside in (3) which I cannot
manipulate directly (I am not an administrator).

Is

>
install.packages("/home/woodstock/hoffmacw/R/Sources/pack.tar.gz",repos=NULL)

correct?

Thanks for pointers and help
Christian
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