Installing old packages on RStudio-hosted Shiny Server

Question

I am trying to install several packages on the RStudio-hosted Shiny Server, but these packages run with at least R version 3.0.0. A possible solution that I found on the Internet:

download.file('http://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/Archive/devtools/devtools_1.1.tar.gz', destfile='devtools_1.1.tar.gz')

install.packages('devtools_1.1.tar.gz', type='source', repos=NULL)

unlink('devtools_1.1.tar.gz')

does not work and I get the following error:

Warning in install.packages : package 'devtools_1.1.tar.gz' is not available (for R version 2.15.3)

How could I modify this code in such a way that I am able to install the devtools package?

Thank you in advance!

Answer 1

恐怕快速解决方案将涉及调查所需软件包的详细信息，但是作为更大问题的解决方案，请签出Packrat ，它可以用于在部署之前将R软件包（任何版本）捆绑在您的应用程序中。