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Update packages that are missing or out-of-date.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