How can I install a R package on a offline Debian machine?

Question

I have an Debian VM which is not connected to internet. Yet, I can still scp any file from my local machine which does have internet connection. To provide a little bit context,

Answer 1

To install some package-offline on Debian you can use apt-offline :

apt-offline can fully update and upgrade an APT based distribution without connecting to the network, all of it transparent to APT.

apt-offline can be used to generate a signature on a machine (with no network). This signature contains all download information required for the APT database system. This signature file can be used on another machine connected to the internet (which need not be a Debian box and can even be running windows) to download the updates. The downloaded data will contain all updates in a format understood by APT and this data can be used by apt-offline to update the non-networked machine.

Install apt-offline on the offline os (Debian) then type the following command (to import missing keys) :

sudo apt-key exportall | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --import --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg

Then you need to get the signature of your_package_name:

apt-offline set debian-install.sig --install-packages your_package_name

Next step ,Upload debian-install.sig to the on-line system and download required files.

apt-offline get debian-install.sig --bundle debian-install.zip 

Upload debian-install.zip file to the off-line system, install it using apt-offline utility to update APT database.

sudo apt-offline install debian-install.zip 

install the specified packages your_package_name :

sudo apt-get install your_package_name

You can download your package using windows machine tuto