Loading an R Package from a Custom directory

Question

If I download an \"package-name\".tar.gz file from CRAN website, gunzip and untar it into a custom directory, how do I load that package from within R? I cannot extract the

Answer 1

Try using Hadley Wickham's devtools package, which allows loading packages from a given directory:

library(devtools)

# load package w/o installing
load_all('/some/package/diR')

# or invoke 'R CMD INSTALL'
install('/some/package/diR')