# installing packages into R

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-packages-into-r/25674>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-packages-into-r/25674 "2017-10-03T21:55:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Vasanth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/85e7bf/32.png) [@Vasanth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Vasanth)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2017, 9:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-packages-into-r/25674/1 "2017-10-03T21:55:55Z")

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Hi,

Running ansible scripts to install packages into R seems to be installed but couldn’t able to see the installed packages.

-name: install r pkgs  
command: Rscript -e “install.packages(“path/pkgname”, repos=Null,type=source)”

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**Author:** ![Mischa\_ter\_Smitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@Mischa\_ter\_Smitten](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Mischa_ter_Smitten)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 8:59am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-packages-into-r/25674/2 "2017-10-05T08:59:02Z")

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You might be interested in [https://github.com/Oefenweb/ansible-r](https://github.com/Oefenweb/ansible-r)

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**Author:** ![Benjamin\_Redling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/47e85d/32.png) [@Benjamin\_Redling](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Benjamin_Redling)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2017, 12:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/installing-packages-into-r/25674/3 "2017-10-07T12:20:00Z")

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Hi,