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

In russmisc: A repository for a variety of useful functions.

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	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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