Package Installation

Tools for installing packages from a variety of locations.

install_bioc()

Install a development package from the Bioconductor git repository

install_bitbucket()

Install a package directly from Bitbucket

install_cran()

Attempts to install a package from CRAN.

install_dev()

Install the development version of a package

install_git()

Install a package from a git repository

install_github()

Attempts to install a package directly from GitHub.

install_gitlab()

Install a package from GitLab

install_local()

Install a package from a local file

install_svn()

Install a package from a SVN repository

install_url()

Install a package from a url

install_version()

Install specific version of a package.

download_version()

Download a specified version of a CRAN package

update_packages()

Update packages that are missing or out-of-date.

system_requirements()

Query the system requirements for a package (and its dependencies)

Dependencies

Tools for working with package dependencies.

install_deps()

Install package dependencies if needed.

package_deps() local_package_deps() dev_package_deps() update(<package_deps>)

Find all dependencies of a CRAN or dev package.

GitHub helpers

Utilities for interacting with GitHub.

github_pull() github_release()

GitHub references

parse_repo_spec() parse_github_repo_spec() parse_github_url()

Parse a remote git repo specification