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

You can't call R CMD INSTALL downloadedpackage.gz?

As I understand it, this should install the package in your user-space if it cannot get write permissions to the R installation folder