Install specified version of a CRAN package.

If you are installing an package that contains compiled code, you will need to have an R development environment installed. You can check if you do by running devtools::has_devel (you need the devtools package for this).

install_version(
  package,
  version = NULL,
  dependencies = NA,
  upgrade = c("default", "ask", "always", "never"),
  force = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  build = FALSE,
  build_opts = c("--no-resave-data", "--no-manual", "--no-build-vignettes"),
  build_manual = FALSE,
  build_vignettes = FALSE,
  repos = getOption("repos"),
  type = "source",
  ...
)

Arguments

package	package name
version	If the specified version is NULL or the same as the most recent version of the package, this function simply calls utils::install.packages(). Otherwise, it looks at the list of archived source tarballs and tries to install an older version instead.
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"). Only supported if lib is of length one (or missing), so it is unambiguous where to install the dependent packages. If this is not the case it is ignored, with a warning. The default, NA, means c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"). TRUE means to use c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests") for pkgs and c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo") for added dependencies: this installs all the packages needed to run pkgs, their examples, tests and vignettes (if the package author specified them correctly). In all of these, "LinkingTo" is omitted for binary packages.
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 "ask" prompts the user for which out of date packages to upgrade.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	logical: if true, reduce the amount of 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	character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use, e.g., the URL of a CRAN mirror such as "https://cloud.r-project.org". For more details on supported URL schemes see url. Can be NULL to install from local files, directories or URLs: this will be inferred by extension from pkgs if of length one.
type	character, indicating the type of package to download and install. Will be "source" except on Windows and some macOS builds: see the section on ‘Binary packages’ for those.
...	Other arguments passed on to utils::install.packages().

See also

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