addLocalPackage: Add local packages to a miniCRAN repository.

In miniCRAN: Create a Mini Version of CRAN Containing Only Selected Packages

Add local packages to a miniCRAN repository.

Description

Examine the contents of a directory specified by pkgPath for pre-built packages matching the names specified by pkgs, and add these to the miniCRAN repository.

Usage

addLocalPackage(
  pkgs = NULL,
  pkgPath = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  type = "source",
  Rversion = R.version,
  writePACKAGES = TRUE,
  deps = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  build = FALSE
)

Arguments

pkgs	Character vector of packages to download
pkgPath	Character vector of directory location containing packages to be added. Note that pkgPath should be the parent directory of the package (i.e., the package directory path is constructed from file.path(pkgPath, pkgs)).
path	Destination download path. This path is the root folder of your new repository.
type	Possible values are (currently) "source", "mac.binary" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed on other platforms. Passed to download.packages().
Rversion	Version of R (only used if type is not source.) Defaults to R.version, but this can be specified as any of the following formats: a character string with the two digit R version, e.g. "3.1" a list with components major and minor the result of getRversion() the result of R.version
writePACKAGES	If TRUE, calls write_PACKAGES() to update the repository PACKAGES file.
deps	Not used. See note.
quiet	If TRUE, suppress status messages (if any), and the progress bar during download.
build	Logical indicating whether packages should be build prior to adding.

Details

To build a package from source and then add it, use build = TRUE. Note that package development libraries and the devtools package must be installed on your system in order to build packages.

Value

Installs the packages and returns the new package index.

Note

Currently, adding local packages does not check nor download their dependencies.

Author(s)

Alex Chubaty

Examples

## Not run: 
 addLocalPackage("myPackage", "path/to/my/prebuilt/package",
                 "path/to/my/miniCRAN/repo")

 addLocalPackage("myPackage", "path/to/my/package/sourcecode",
                 "path/to/my/miniCRAN/repo", build = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

miniCRAN documentation built on March 18, 2022, 6:29 p.m.