https://github.com/r-lib/pkginstall

Provides a replacement for `utils::install.packages()`
https://github.com/r-lib/pkginstall

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Provides a replacement for `utils::install.packages()`

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/r-lib/pkginstall
• Owner: r-lib
• License: gpl-3.0
• Archived: true
• Created: 2017-09-12T21:23:55.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-04-03T14:32:01.000Z (over 4 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-21T02:53:37.516Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: r
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 256 KB
• Stars: 35
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 6
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE.md

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# pkginstall

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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.

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.

## Installation

Once on CRAN, install with

```r

install.packages("pkginstall")

```

## Example

``` r

files <- download.packages("remotes", type = "binary", ".")

pkginstall::install_binary(files[[2]])

```

## Status [![Lifecycle: superseded](https://img.shields.io/badge/lifecycle-superseded-orange.svg)](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#superseded)

pkginstall is superseded: the functionality was included directly in the pkgdepends package, used by pak. We recommend using [pak](https://github.com/r-lib/pak) instead.