Command Line Options for the INSTALL Command

You can install packages from the command line by using the command TERR CMD INSTALL and specifying any of the following options to control the installation.

Usage

TERR CMD INSTALL [options] pkgs

Description

Install packages specified by pkgs, which can be the names of source package directories, source package tar.gz files, or binary (prebuilt) package .zip files.

Options

-o, --option=value means that -o value and --option=value are synonymous.

Note: Other arguments that can be used with R CMD INSTALL are ignored.


Option	Description
`-h`, `--help`	Describe the arguments that can be passed to this command.
`-l`, `--library=LIB_DIR`	Install packages to the library directory LIB_DIR.
`--build`	Build distributable archives of newly-installed packages.
`--install-tests`	Install the specified package tests directory.
`-d`, `--debug`	Enable debugging messages.
`-v`, `--version`	Display the package installer version information.
`--no-R`, `--no-libs`, `--no-data`, `--no-help`, `--no-demo`, `--no-exec`, `--no-inst`	Suppress the installation of the specified part of the package (for testing).
`--no-configure`	Do not run the configuration scripts.
`--no-test-load`	Do not try to attach the package in a new TERR process after installing. Otherwise, an unattachable package is deleted.
`--clean`	After installation, remove from the source directory any files created during installation.
`--preclean`	Before installation, remove from the source directory any files made during a previous installation.
`--configure-args`	Command line arguments for the package configuration script.
`--configure-vars`	The environment variables set before running the package configuration script.
`--(with\|without)-keep.source`	Keep or do not keep the source information with the R functions.
`--(with\|without)-keep.parse.data`	Keep or do not keep the parse data with the R functions.