devtools (version 0.8)

install_github: Attempts to install a package directly from github.

Description

This function is vectorised so you can install multiple packages in a single command.

Usage

install_github(repo, username = getOption("github.user"),
    ref = "master", pull = NULL, subdir = NULL,
    branch = NULL, auth_user = NULL, password = NULL, ...)

Arguments

username

Github username

repo

Repo name

ref

Desired git reference. Could be a commit, tag, or branch name. Defaults to "master".

pull

Desired pull request. A pull request refers to a branch, so you can't specify both branch and pull; one of them must be NULL.

subdir

subdirectory within repo that contains the R package.

branch

Deprecated. Use ref instead.

auth_user

your github username if you're attempting to install a package hosted in a private repository (and your username is different to username)

password

your github password

...

Other arguments passed on to install.

See Also

Other package installation: install, install_bitbucket, install_gitorious, install_url, install_version

Examples

install_github("roxygen")