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Sandwichnick
Sandwichnick

Reputation: 1466

install dependencies from CRAN for a package installed from source

I want to give a beta version of my package to a coworker for testing purposes. I build the package and put the .zip file on the Network Folder.

The Problem is, how to tell R that it should install the package from the ZipFile but its dependencies from CRAN?

install.packages("path\\to\\zipfile.zip", source = TRUE, repos = NULL)

Because repos = null disables the dependency resultion. If under stand the documentation correctly:

dependencies
logical indicating whether to also install uninstalled packages which these packages depend on/link to/import/suggest (and so on recursively). Not used if repos = NULL. Can also be a character vector, a subset of c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", "Enhances").

I would like to give the coworker a short snippet of code to install for himself without him having to interact further with the installation.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 139

Answers (1)

Sandwichnick
Sandwichnick

Reputation: 1466

As the Imports or dependencies might change in later development, i would prefer not to hardcode them.

I found devtools::install() which satisfies this requirement. Although it needs devtools.

Upvotes: 0

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