devtools (version 1.4.1)

install_github: Attempts to install a package directly from github.

Description

This function is vectorised on repo 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

repo

Repository address in the format [username/]repo[/subdir][@ref|#pull]. Alternatively, you can specify username, subdir, ref or pull using the respective parameters (see below); if bo

username

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

password

your password

...

Other arguments passed on to install.

See Also

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

Examples

install_github("roxygen")
install_github("wch/ggplot2")
install_github(c("rstudio/httpuv", "rstudio/shiny"))
install_github(c("devtools@devtools-1.4", "klutometis/roxygen#142", "mfrasca/r-logging/pkg))

# Update devtools to the latest version, on Linux and Mac
# On Windows, this won't work - see ?build_github_devtools
install_github("hadley/devtools")

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