install.packages() enforce no CRAN mirror selection?

Question

When running install.packages("somepackage") from terminal, the pop out gui to select a CRAN mirror can be inconvenient and somewhat unnecessary.

Is there a way to call install.packages("somepackage") (from R in the terminal) so as to avoid having to select a mirror via the gui, but doesn't require naming a specific mirror address/mirror ?

Answer 1

install.packages("names", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")

You could also set the mirror you want with :

options(repos=structure(c(CRAN="getCRANmirrors()$URL[1]")))

in a .Rprofile file so your R will automatically use this repos when you will call :

install.packages() .