Many R CRAN packages are already packaged to be used with Debian (the Linux distribution CAE uses); however, some packages are too new to be included with the operating system.  If you need a new R package installed, to be used by a group of users, please submit a request along with the class requesting this package (http://www.cae.wisc.edu/contact) .  Otherwise R packages can be installed in a user's home directory as shown below.

To use locally installed R packages you will need to create a place for them:

mkdir ~/R/; mkdir ~/R/libs/

You will also need to tell R where this place is:

echo 'R_LIBS_USER="~/R/library"' >  $HOME/.Renviron

Once this is done you can install as many packages there as your quota allows.

Given a package named: mypackage.tar.gz

R CMD INSTALL -l ~/R/libs/ mypackage.tar.gz

At this point, your package is installed. Please refer to the package documentation for instructions on usage.