Install R Packages from 'GitHub'
Download and install R packages stored in GitHub repositories.
This R package is a lightweight replacement of
devtools::install_github().
To install the latest version in the master branch from GitHub,
you can use the user/repo form. Note that user can also be
an organization:
remotes::install_github("mangothecat/franc")If the R package is inside a subdirectory of the root directory, then give this subdirectory as well:
remotes::install_github("dmlc/xgboost/R-package")To install a certain branch or commit or tag, append it to the
repo name, after an @:
remotes::install_github("gaborcsardi/[email protected]")To install the latest release, append @*release to the repo
name:
remotes::install_github("gaborcsardi/pkgconfig@*release")To install a pull request, append # and the id (an integer number)
of the pull request to the repo name:
remotes::install_github("mangothecat/pkgsnap#10")Dependencies are automatically installed from CRAN. By default, outdated dependencies are automatically upgraded.
It is also possible to install dependencies from GitHub. For this
you need to add a Remotes field to the DESCRIPTION file.
Its format is:
Remotes: [remote::]repo_spec, [remote::]repo_spec, ...
where repo_spec is any repository specification install_github
can handle. If remote:: is missing, github:: is assumed.
Note that currently only the github:: remote type is supported
by remotes. The devtools
package supports more remote types.
BioConductor packages are automatically detected and their
dependencies are installed from BioConductor. Note that you
need to have the BiocInstaller package installed to
install BioConductor packages with remotes.
If the package has git submodules, then the installation will likely fail. Nevertheless, a warning is given in this case.
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