devtools (version 1.2)

install_git: Install a package from a git repository

Description

This function requires git to be installed on your system in order to be used.

Usage

install_git(git_url, name = NULL, subdir = NULL,
    branch = NULL, git_binary = NULL, ...)

Arguments

git_url

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

name

Optional package name, used to provide more informative messages.

subdir

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

git_binary

A custom git-binary to use instead of default system's git version.

branch

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

...

Other arguments passed on to install.

Details

It is vectorised so you can install multiple packages with a single command.

See Also

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

Examples

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