It will download and install package from devel repository only when new commit is available there, otherwise only PACKAGES file is transferred. Defaults are set to update data.table
, other packages can be used as well. Their repository has to include git commit information in PACKAGES file.
# S3 method for dev.pkg
update(object="data.table",
repo="https://Rdatatable.gitlab.io/data.table",
field="Revision", type=getOption("pkgType"), lib=NULL, ...)
NULL.
character scalar, package name.
character scalar, url of package devel repository.
character scalar, metadata field to use in PACKAGES file and
DESCRIPTION file, default "Revision"
.
character scalar, default getOption("pkgType")
, used
to define if package has to be installed from sources, binaries or both.
character scalar, library location where package is meant to be upgraded.
passed to install.packages
.
In case if a devel repository does not provide binaries user will need development tools installed for package compilation, like Rtools on Windows, and eventually set type="source"
.
data.table
# data.table::update.dev.pkg()
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