contrib.url
Find Appropriate Paths in CRAN-like Repositories

### Description

Adds the appropriate path to each URL in repos.

### Usage

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

### Arguments

repos | a character vector contains the base URL of the repositories. If it is 'NULL', to install from local files.
type | a character vector to indicate the type of package to download an install. The possible values can be "source", "mac.binary", "mac.binary.leopard", "win.binary" and "win64.binary".

### Details

According to the type, the returned value is set to different path with R's current version number. If the string "@CRAN" exists in repos and interactive mode is TRUE, in GUI version, a dialog will appear to let user select a CRAN mirror. Please refer to the example to see how this works.
Value
If repos is NULL, it returns NULL. Otherwise, a character vector with the same lenght of repos will be returned.
See Also
available.packages, download.packages, install.packages
Examples

    contrib.url("http://mycorp.com/repos")
    contrib.url("http://mycorp.com/repos", type="source")
    ## Not run: contrib.url("@CRAN@","source")    # you will be asked to choose from a list of CRAN mirrors

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