Hi, My University has installed a block so that I can not download packages into R from CRAN. I want to download the package "limma". I have downloaded and unzipped the limma zip file onto my desktop. How do i install limma from my desktop into R ? Do I use the install.packages command ? Please can someone tell me what to next to the prompt in R to enable me to install the limma package from my desktop. Thank you Michael.

I assume you are using windows since you are talking about zip files instead of .tar.gz. If you are using windows, there should be a pull- down menu (I think the heading is "packages"). The menu item is "install local package" (or something similar). Point it to the zip file (you should not unzip it). You can also do it using install.packages: do something like R> install.packages("PATH_TO_ZIPFILE", repos = NULL) where PATH_TO_ZIPFILE is the path to the zipfile (remember, R is using / instead of \ in filenames on windows). If you have trouble entering the path, try list.files("DIRECTORY") and exists.file("FILE") to check you are entering it correctly. On Linux you just do a # R CMD INSTALL zipfile from the shell. All of this may require superuser/administrator privileges. There are ways around this, but let us keep it simple. /Kasper On Feb 8, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Michael Stapelberg wrote: > Hi, > > My University has installed a block so that I can not download > packages into R from CRAN. I want to download the package "limma". I > have downloaded and unzipped the limma zip file onto my desktop. How > do i install limma from my desktop into R ? Do I use the > install.packages command ? > > Please can someone tell me what to next to the prompt in R to enable > me to install the limma package from my desktop. > > Thank you > > Michael. > > _______________________________________________ > Bioconductor mailing list > Bioconductor at stat.math.ethz.ch > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioconductor