Install Python Dependencies Offline — installPythonDepsOffline • CohortContrast

Installs Python packages from pre-downloaded wheel files (offline installation). This is useful for air-gapped servers without internet access.

Usage

installPythonDepsOffline(
  packagesDir = NULL,
  platform = "linux_x86_64",
  cleanup = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

packagesDir: Path to directory containing wheel files or a .zip archive. This argument is required in CRAN builds.
platform: Platform identifier. Default is "linux_x86_64".
cleanup: Logical. If TRUE, removes extracted files after installation. Default is TRUE.
...: Backward-compatible alias: `packages_dir`.

Value

Invisibly returns TRUE if installation was successful.

Details

The function supports two formats:

A .zip file (e.g., "linux_x86_64.zip") containing wheel files
A directory containing .whl files directly

For offline installation:

Download wheel files on a machine with internet access
Copy the packages folder to the offline server
Run this function to install from local files

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Install from custom location
configurePython(createVenv = FALSE)
installPythonDepsOffline(packagesDir = "/path/to/packages")
} # }