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 dont need to unzip or untar
just give this command in command prompt and it will unzip into appropriate place

R CMD INSTALL [options] [l-lib] pkgs.tar.gz

as explained here

then you can use it in R by library(the_pkg)