checked (version 0.5.0)

install_task: Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Description

Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Usage

install_task(
  origin,
  type = package_install_type(origin),
  INSTALL_opts = NULL,
  lib = lib_path(origin),
  ...
)

Arguments

origin

pkg_origin() object.

type

character, indicating the type of package to download and install. Will be "source" except on Windows and some macOS builds: see the section on ‘Binary packages’ for those.

INSTALL_opts

an optional character vector of additional option(s) to be passed to R CMD INSTALL for a source package install. E.g., c("--html", "--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load") or, for macOS, "--dsym".

Can also be a named list of character vectors to be used as additional options, with names the respective package names.

lib

Any object that can be passed to lib() to generate a library path.

...

further arguments to be passed to download.file, available.packages, or to the functions for binary installs on macOS and Windows (which accept an argument "lock": see the section on ‘Locking’).

See Also

Other tasks: check_task(), meta_task(), task()