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I've found a number of different methods that can be used to install packages on a machine that isn't connected to the internet. This post offers a fairly straightforward method to download the packages, transfer to the disconnected machine, and then to point the R installation at this custom repository.

After transferring the files, I ran the following command on the machine not connected to the internet:

update.packages(repos="C:/Users/username/Documents/R/R Repository/3.4",repos = NULL,type = "source")

After running the above line, I am getting the following error:

Error in update.packages(repos = "C:/Users/username/Documents/R/R Repository/3.4", : formal argument "repos" matched by multiple actual arguments

Another thing I noticed is that the downloaded packages are all ".tar.gz" files, and this is a windows machine (as was the machine in the linked post above). Could this be part of the problem?

Any help would be much appreciated, thank you!

OpnSrcFan
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It looks like you have "repos =" twice in your call. Take out "repos = NULL" and try it again.

Stephen Ewing
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  • Thank you for your response. This generated a new error, "Error in install.packages : argument 'pkgs' is missing, with no default." – OpnSrcFan Mar 14 '19 at 20:20
  • it's probably looking for the list of package names like it would take in the normal connected install.packages() call. – Stephen Ewing Mar 14 '19 at 20:24