quickinstall: Quick Installation of a Source Package

In pkgmaker: Development Utilities for R Packages

Quick Installation of a Source Package

Description

Builds and install a minimal version of a package from its source directory.

Usage

quickinstall(
  path,
  destdir = NULL,
  vignettes = FALSE,
  force = TRUE,
  ...,
  lib.loc = if (!is.null(destdir)) TRUE
)

Arguments

path	path to the package source directory
destdir	installation directory. If NULL, the package is installed in the default installation library. If NA, the package is installed in a temporary directory, whose path is returned as a value.
vignettes	logical that indicates if the vignettes should be rebuilt and installed.
force	logical that indicates if the package should be installed even if a previous installation exists in the installation library.
...	extra arguments passed to R.CMD
lib.loc	library specification. If TRUE then the installation directory destdir is added to the default library paths. This can be usefull if dependencies are installed in this directory. If NULL, then the default library path is left unchanged.

Value

quickinstall returns the path of the library where the package was installed.

pkgmaker documentation built on May 3, 2023, 5:08 p.m.