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Install a remote package.

Source: R/install-remote.R
install_remote.Rd

This:

  1. downloads source bundle

  2. decompresses & checks that it's a package

  3. adds metadata to DESCRIPTION

  4. calls install

Usage

install_remote(
  remote,
  dependencies,
  upgrade,
  force,
  quiet,
  build,
  build_opts,
  build_manual,
  build_vignettes,
  repos,
  type,
  ...
)

add_metadata(pkg_path, meta)

remote_download(x, quiet = FALSE)

remote_metadata(x, bundle = NULL, source = NULL, sha = NULL)

remote_package_name(remote, ...)

remote_sha(remote, ...)

Arguments

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).

The value "soft" means the same as TRUE, "hard" means the same as NA.

You can also specify dependencies from one or more additional fields, common ones include:

  • Config/Needs/website - for dependencies used in building the pkgdown site.

  • Config/Needs/coverage for dependencies used in calculating test coverage.

upgrade

Should package dependencies be upgraded? 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 "ask" prompts the user for which out of date packages to upgrade.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 is TRUE.

build_manual

If FALSE, don't build PDF manual ('--no-manual').

build_vignettes

If FALSE, don't build package vignettes ('--no-build-vignettes').

repos

A character vector giving repositories to use.

type

Type of package to update.

...

Other arguments passed on to utils::install.packages().

Details

It uses the additional S3 generic functions to work. Writing methods for these functions would allow 3rd party packages to define custom remotes.