devtools (version 1.5)

install_version: Install specified version of a CRAN package.

Description

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 has_devel.

Usage

install_version(package, version = NULL, repos = getOption("repos"),
  type = getOption("pkgType"), ...)

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 install. Otherwise, it looks at the list of archived source tarballs and tries to install a

...

Other arguments passed on to install.

repos

character vector, the base URL(s) of the repositories to use, e.g., the URL of a CRAN mirror such as "http://cran.us.r-project.org".

Can be NULL to install from local files (with extension .tar.gz fo

type

character, indicating the type of package to download and install.

Possible values are "source", "mac.binary.leopard" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed

See Also

Other package installation: install_bitbucket; install_github; install_gitorious; install_git; install_url; install