README.md

In pegeler/metapackage: A Personal Metapackage

metapackage

The sole purpose of this package is to install other packages. It is meant to be a quick way to install all the packages that I typically use in R. Although perhaps not the most elegant way to restore the package ecosystem of any new install, the use of devtools is very helpful since it allows specifying repository locations for non-CRAN packages.

Think of this as my "dotfiles" repo for R. In fact, I might put my .Rprofile here at some point.

If you have a neat strategy for managing packages after upgrades or fresh installs, please submit an issue. I'd like to hear about it!

Usage

if ( !require(devtools) ) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("pegeler/metapackage")

Note for GNU/Linux Users

I recommend checking out Posit Public Package Manager. There are tons of features available, but the two main selling points for me are:

1. It hosts precompiled binaries for many distros.
2. It tracks system level dependencies. (Even though you will still need to install them manually.)

When installing many packages (for example fresh installs or version updates), this can save quite a bit of time over compiling from source.

pegeler/metapackage documentation built on Oct. 10, 2023, 11:20 p.m.