glibrary: Try to load a library, if that fails, install it, then load...

In drknexus/repsych: Package for reproducible psychological research

Description

glibrary short for (get)library. The primary aim of this function is to make loading packages more transparent. Given that we know we want to load a given package, actually fetching it is a formality. glibrary skims past this formality to install the requested package.

Usage

glibrary(..., lib.loc = NULL, quietly = FALSE, warn.conflicts = TRUE,
  pickmirror = FALSE, countrycode = "us")

Arguments

...	comma seperated package names
lib.loc	See require
quietly	See require
warn.conflicts	See require
pickmirror	If TRUE, glibrary allows the user to select the mirror, otherwise it auto-selects on the basis of the country code
countrycode	This option is ignored and the first mirror with the substring "Cloud", e.g. the RStudio cloud, is selected. If no mirrors with that substring are identified, glibrary compares this value to results from getCRANmirrors() to select a mirror in the specified country.

Value

logical; TRUE if glibrary was a success, an error if a package failed to load

Note

keep.source was an arguement to require that was deprecated in R 2.15

This warning Warning in install.packages: InternetOpenUrl failed: 'The operation timed out' indicates that the randomly selected repository is not available. Check your internet connection. If your internet connection is fine, set pickmirror=TRUE and manually select an operational mirror.

Examples

#glibrary(lattice,MASS) #not run to prevent needless dependency

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