How to install a package from a download zip file

Question

I have download this package as a zip file.

Is it possible to install it from R console using this zip or unzip version to a specific path?

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Answer 1

If this is the zip of the source of a package, and the R core install.packages() doesn't work, then you can use install_local() from the devtools package.

I often do this when installing packages from GitHub as getting curl through our proxy is painful. So I download the source zip and install like this.