grab_and_attach: grab_and_attach

In Patrikios/grab_and_attach: Loading and attaching multiple packages to search path, if not installed attempts to install

Description

grab stands for - try to to load package, if it fails attempt to install, attach stands for - attaching the grabbed package to the search path of the R session.

Usage

grab_and_attach(
  ...,
  mirror = "https://cloud.r-project.org/",
  dependencies = TRUE,
  update_first = FALSE
)

Arguments

...	List of packages to install (accepts NSE or standard string values)
mirror	Will be passed down to 'repos' argument of 'install.packages'
dependencies	Will be passed down to 'dependencies' argument of 'install.packages'
update_first	Boolean, indicates if an update of the packages should be done first before the grabing procedure takes place.

Value

Does not have a return value, the successful outcome is that the indicated packages are loaded and attached.

Examples

grab_and_attach('lubridate', data.table, 'cli')

Patrikios/grab_and_attach documentation built on Jan. 3, 2022, 12:47 p.m.