devtools (version 1.9.1)

install_local: Install a package from a local file

Description

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

Usage

install_local(path, subdir = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path
path to local directory, or compressed file (tar, zip, tar.gz tar.bz2, tgz2 or tbz)
subdir
subdirectory within url bundle that contains the R package.
...
Other arguments passed on to install.

Examples

Run this code
dir <- tempfile()
dir.create(dir)
pkg <- download.packages("testthat", dir, type = "source")
install_local(pkg[, 2])

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