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remotes (version 1.0.0)

R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'

Description

Download and install R packages stored in 'GitHub', 'BitBucket', or plain 'subversion' or 'git' repositories. This package is a lightweight replacement of the 'install_*' functions in 'devtools'. Indeed most of the code was copied over from 'devtools'.

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Install

install.packages('remotes')

Monthly Downloads

450,616

Version

1.0.0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Issues

116

Pull Requests

14

Stars

345

Forks

154

Maintainer

Gábor Csárdi

Last Published

September 10th, 2016

Functions in remotes (1.0.0)

github_pull

GitHub references
install_github

Attempts to install a package directly from GitHub.
install_bitbucket

Install a package directly from bitbucket
install_url

Install a package from a url
bioc_install_repos

Deduce the URLs of the BioConductor repositories
install_local

Install a package from a local file
install_git

Install a package from a git repository
download_version

Download a specified version of a CRAN package
install_deps

Install package dependencies if needed.
install_svn

Install a package from a SVN repository
parse_github_repo_spec

Parse a concise GitHub repo specification
package_deps

Find all dependencies of a CRAN or dev package.
install_version

Install specified version of a CRAN package.
update_packages

Update packages that are missing or out-of-date.