devtools (version 1.11.1)

install_git: Install a package from a git repository

Description

It is vectorised so you can install multiple packages with a single command. You do not need to have git installed.

Usage

install_git(url, subdir = NULL, branch = NULL, credentials = NULL,
  args = character(0), force = FALSE, quiet = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

url

Location of package. The url should point to a public or private repository.

subdir

A sub-directory within a git repository that may contain the package we are interested in installing.

branch

Name of branch or tag to use, if not master.

credentials

A git2r credentials object passed through to clone.

args

DEPRECATED. A character vector providing extra arguments to pass on to git.

force

Force installation even if the git SHA1 has not changed since the previous install.

quiet

if TRUE suppresses output from this function.

...

passed on to install

See Also

Other package installation: install_bitbucket, install_github, install_svn, install_url, install_version, install, uninstall

Examples

install_git("git://github.com/hadley/stringr.git")
install_git("git://github.com/hadley/stringr.git", branch = "stringr-0.2")