How to install stringi library from archive and install the local icu52l.zip

Question

We\'re bumbling through making some R code work in a production environment and as part of that we\'re installing some R packages as follows:

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Answer 1

I had the same problem. What I did is similar to the solution proposed by gagolews. Gagolews' solution didn't exactly work for me because I couldn't find a zip copy of stringi to download. I downloaded icudt from http://static.rexamine.com/packages/icudt52l.zip to a folder, say /home/tmp/ then I installed from the net, but providing the local copy of icudt, by typing the following in R:

install.packages("stringi", # this will install from online
configure.vars="ICUDT_DIR=/home/tmp/") #but use the downloaded version of icudt

This worked for me.