setRepositories {utils} | R Documentation

## Select Package Repositories

### Description

Interact with the user to choose the package repositories to be used.

### Usage

    setRepositories(graphics = TRUE)

### Arguments

`graphics` | Logical. If true use a listbox, otherwise use a text list in the console.

### Details

The default list of known repositories is stored in the file ‘`R_HOME/etc/repositories`’. That file can be edited for a site, or a user can have a personal copy in ‘`HOME/.R/repositories`’ which will take precedence.

The items that are preselected are those that are currently in `options("repos")` plus those marked as default in the list of known repositories.

### Value

This function is invoked mainly for its side effect of updating `options("repos")`. It returns (invisibly) the previous `repos` options setting (as a `list` with component `repos`) or `NULL` if no changes were applied.

### See Also

`chooseCRANmirror`, `install.packages`.

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