Copying files

Copying files may sound a bit strange at first glance but, for the majority of packages, copying the complete library folder to the destination folder will also do the job. Imagine being a system administrator responsible for configuring a new R environment or sandbox. In this scenario, you don't want to run hundreds of lines of code to install all the needed packages; so, you would just copy/paste the folders from an image or backup. This would be a hundred times faster and much more convenient. Also, the packages would be already tested with R Engine.

Using a simple copy/paste, drag, and drop opretion, I copied and installed the, acepack package in my R Client environment (copied from R Server):