pkginstall-package: Intall Packages from Local Files

In r-lib/pkginstall: Installs Packages from Local Files

Description

Provides a replacement for utils::install.packages(repo = NULL). I.e. it builds binary packages from source packages, and extracts the compressed archives into the package library.

Features

Compared to utils::install.packages() it

• Has robust support for installing packages in parallel.

• Fails immediately when the first package fails when installing multiple packages, rather than returning a warning.

• Uses the same code paths on all platforms, rather than similar (but not identical) code paths.

• Succeeds or fails atomically. Either the complete package is installed or it fails with an informative error message.

• Has additional tests for package validity before installing

• Always uses per-package lock files, to protect against simultaneous installation.

• Has a robust set of tests, to ensure correctness and ease debugging installation issues.

Locking

pkginstall uses the install.lock option. If this is set to FALSE, then no locking is performed. For all other values (including if the option is unset or is NULL), per-package lock files are used, via the filelock package.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Jim Hester [e-mail]

Authors:

• Gábor Gábor [e-mail]

r-lib/pkginstall documentation built on April 9, 2020, 6:11 a.m.