packages: Conveniently load and install packages

In frankhezemans/fhTools: Personal 'R' package of Frank Hezemans

Description

packages loads and, if necessary, installs packages. Adapted from the glibrary function in the repsych package. Packages can be installed from both CRAN and GitHub.

Usage

packages(..., repos = "http://cran.r-project.org", dep = TRUE,
  lib.loc = NULL, quietly = FALSE, warn.conflicts = TRUE)

Arguments

...	comma seperated package names and/or GitHub repository address. In case of the latter, ensure that you enter the address as a character in the format username/repo (or username/repo/subdir if necessary).
repos	URL of the repository to use, see install.packages.
dep	logical indicating whether to also install packages which the requested packages depend on / link to / import / suggest. See install.packages.
lib.loc	character vector describing the location of R library trees to search for, or NULL. See require.
quietly	logical indicating whether warning / error messages from install.packages, install_github, and require should be printed.
warn.conflicts	logical indicating whether require warnings about conflicts from attaching a new package should be printed.

Author(s)

Frank H. Hezemans, [e-mail]

See Also

install.packages, install_github, require

Examples

packages(ggplot2) # Install and load from CRAN
packages(ggplot2, "hrbrmstr/hrbrthemes") # Load packages from CRAN and GitHub in one line

frankhezemans/fhTools documentation built on May 7, 2019, 3:14 p.m.