configure_packages: Configure Package Dependencies

In framework: Structured Data Science Project Scaffolding

Configure Package Dependencies

Description

Interactively add package dependencies to settings.yml (or settings.yml for legacy projects). Packages can be installed from CRAN, GitHub, or Bioconductor, with version pinning support.

Usage

configure_packages(
  package = NULL,
  auto_attach = TRUE,
  version = NULL,
  interactive = TRUE
)

Arguments

package	Character. Package name (e.g., "dplyr", "tidyverse/dplyr")
auto_attach	Logical. If TRUE, package is loaded automatically during scaffold()
version	Character. Version constraint (e.g., "@1.1.0", "@main" for GitHub)
interactive	Logical. If TRUE, prompts for missing values. Default TRUE.

Details

Package Specifications

• CRAN: "dplyr", "ggplot2"

• CRAN with version: "dplyr@1.1.0"

• GitHub: "tidyverse/dplyr", "user/repo@branch"

• GitHub with tag: "user/repo@v1.2.3"

Value

Invisibly returns updated config

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