load_or_install: Load or install R packages (from CRAN or Github (Public or...

In ClaraMarquardt/ehR: A collection of R functions designed to facilitate the interaction with and analysis of EHR data.

Description

Given a list of packages (e.g. list("data.table", "claramarquardt/ehR")) install (where necessary)/load all packages from CRAN/Github as appropriate.

Usage

load_or_install(package_list, custom_lib_path = "",
  custom_repo = "https://cran.rstudio.com", custom_package_version = TRUE,
  quiet = FALSE, github_auth_token = NA)

Arguments

package_list	List of package names which are to be installed/loaded (list - character).
custom_lib_path	Custom library path (character) [Default: Default library path].
custom_repo	R repository from which to download packages [Default: https://cran.rstudio.com"]
custom_package_version	Whether to take into account version specifications for key packages (data.table, ggplot2) (logical - TRUE/FALSE) [Default: TRUE].
github_auth_token	Github API Authentication Token (only needed if installing Github repos from a private repository) (string) [Default: NA].
verbose	Verbosity (logical - TRUE/FALSE) [Default: TRUE].

Details

Maintained by: Clara Marquardt

Value

List of packages which were successfully installed/loaded.

Examples

## Not run: 
package <- list("data.table", "trinker/plotflow")
load_or_install(package_list=package, custom_lib_path=paste0(getwd(), "/test/"), 
 quiet=FALSE)

## End(Not run)

ClaraMarquardt/ehR documentation built on May 6, 2019, 12:02 p.m.