Install a package from a git repository

It is vectorised so you can install multiple packages with a single command. You do not need to have the git2r package, or an external git client installed.

install_git(
  url,
  subdir = NULL,
  ref = NULL,
  branch = NULL,
  credentials = git_credentials(),
  git = c("auto", "git2r", "external"),
  dependencies = NA,
  upgrade = c("default", "ask", "always", "never"),
  force = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  build = TRUE,
  build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual", "--no-build-vignettes"),
  build_manual = FALSE,
  build_vignettes = FALSE,
  repos = getOption("repos"),
  type = getOption("pkgType"),
  ...
)

Arguments

url	Location of package. The url should point to a public or private repository.
subdir	A sub-directory within a git repository that may contain the package we are interested in installing.
ref	Name of branch, tag or SHA reference to use, if not HEAD.
branch	Deprecated, synonym for ref.
credentials	A git2r credentials object passed through to clone. Supplying this argument implies using git2r with git.
git	Whether to use the git2r package, or an external git client via system. Default is git2r if it is installed, otherwise an external git installation.
dependencies	Which dependencies do you want to check? Can be a character vector (selecting from "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", or "Enhances"), or a logical vector. TRUE is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo" and "Suggests". NA is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports" and "LinkingTo" and is the default. FALSE is shorthand for no dependencies (i.e. just check this package, not its dependencies).
upgrade	One of "default", "ask", "always", or "never". "default" respects the value of the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE environment variable if set, and falls back to "ask" if unset. "ask" prompts the user for which out of date packages to upgrade. For non-interactive sessions "ask" is equivalent to "always". TRUE and FALSE are also accepted and correspond to "always" and "never" respectively.
force	Force installation, even if the remote state has not changed since the previous install.
quiet	If TRUE, suppress output.
build	If TRUE build the package before installing.
build_opts	Options to pass to R CMD build, only used when build
build_manual	If FALSE, don't build PDF manual ('--no-manual').
build_vignettes	If FALSE, don't build package vignettes ('--no-build-vignettes'). is TRUE.
repos	A character vector giving repositories to use.
type	Type of package to update.
...	Other arguments passed on to utils::install.packages().

Details

If you need to set git credentials for use in the Remotes field you can do so by placing the credentials in the remotes.git_credentials global option.

See also

Other package installation: install_bioc(), install_bitbucket(), install_cran(), install_dev(), install_github(), install_gitlab(), install_local(), install_svn(), install_url(), install_version()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
install_git("git://github.com/hadley/stringr.git")
install_git("git://github.com/hadley/stringr.git", ref = "stringr-0.2")
}