install_dev: Install the development version of a package

In metrumresearchgroup/rmotes: R Package Installation from Remote Repositories, Including 'GitHub'

Description

install_dev() retrieves the package DESCRIPTION from the CRAN mirror and looks in the 'URL' and 'BugReports' fields for GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket URLs. It then calls the appropriate install_() function to install the development package.

Usage

install_dev(package, cran_url = getOption("repos")[["CRAN"]], ...)

Arguments

package	The package name to install.
cran_url	The URL of the CRAN mirror to use, by default based on the 'repos' option. If unset uses 'https://cloud.r-project.org'.
...	Additional arguments passed to install_github(), install_gitlab(), or install_bitbucket() functions.

See Also

Other package installation: install_bioc, install_bitbucket, install_cran, install_github, install_gitlab, install_git, install_local, install_svn, install_url, install_version

Examples

## Not run: 
# From GitHub
install_dev("dplyr")

# From GitLab
install_dev("iemiscdata")

# From Bitbucket
install_dev("argparser")

## End(Not run)

metrumresearchgroup/rmotes documentation built on May 18, 2019, 2:35 a.m.