yearn: Do yearn on a single package

In yearn: Use and if Needed Install Packages from CRAN, BioConductor, CRAN Archive, and GitHub

Description

Do yearn on a single package

Usage

yearn(pkg, maxdist = 0, username.pref = c("cran", "ropensci", "rstudio",
  "tidyverse", "hadley", "yihui", "RcppCore", "eddelbuettel", "ropenscilabs",
  "hrbrmstr", "thej022214", "bomeara"))

Arguments

pkg	The package name (bare text, NOT in quotes)
maxdist	The maximum distance that counts as a match
username.pref	In case of matches, user names in order of preference.

Details

See the readme file. Basically, this tries to load an installed package. If that fails, it then looks (in order) on Bioconductor, CRAN, GitHub's CRAN mirror, and other GitHub repositories for the package and installs it if it can find it.

Value

NULL if success, a string describing the problem otherwise

Examples

## Not run: 
yearn(laser) # A package that was on CRAN but has been removed.

## End(Not run)

yearn documentation built on Jan. 13, 2018, 1:02 a.m.