Providing CRAN packages in low- or no-bandwidth environments using miniCRAN as described in https://software-carpentry.org/blog/2015/03/teaching-in-yangon.html

load_pkgs.R

## For the user with a new installation of R. 

# They get a USB stick with a directory containing an .RProj file,
# the workshop files, and the local_CRAN directory. They open 
# the .RProj, which sets the working directory for RStudio, and then
# they open this file and run it, which installs pkgs from 
# the local_CRAN directory on the USB stick.

# Specify list of packages to install
pkgs <- c('ggplot2',  'rmarkdown', 'knitr')

# Set location to store source files 
local_CRAN <- paste0(getwd(), "/local_CRAN")

# do installation 
install.packages(pkgs, 
                 repos = paste0("file:///", local_CRAN),
                 type = "source")

# make packages available to this session 
sapply(pkgs, require, character.only = TRUE)

setup.r

############################################################

# Prepare a local repo of packages using miniCRAN 
# for students to install offline. The workshop leader runs
# this script to prepare the local_CRAN directory. This
# script is not provided to the students

# We need to have a good internet connection for these steps

library("miniCRAN")

# Specify list of packages to download
pkgs <- c('stringr', 'devtools', 'ggplot2', 'dplyr', 'tidyr', 'rmarkdown', 'knitr', 'reshape2', 'gdata', 'xlsx')

# Make list of package URLs
revolution <- c(CRAN="http://cran.revolutionanalytics.com")
pkgList <- pkgDep(pkgs, repos=revolution, type="source" )

# Set location to store source files 
local_CRAN <- paste0(getwd(), "/local_CRAN")

# Make repo for source and binaries, I just get source and win because I know
# no-one has OSX (too expensive!)
makeRepo(pkgList, path = local_CRAN, repos = revolution, type = "source")
makeRepo(pkgList, path = local_CRAN, repos = revolution, type = "win.binary")

# install...
install.packages(pkgs, 
                 repos = paste0("file:///", local_CRAN),
                 type = "source")

# test to see if we can use them
sapply(pkgs, require, character.only = TRUE)

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I think you can get away with one makeRepo command by doing type = c("source", "win.binary")