Re: [R] install.packages and package dependencies

Duncan and Berwin, Thank you for your help. I really wanted confirmation from someone more experienced than me that I wasn't missing something. It looks like there is no way to do this in one line in base R, and that's fine. For reference, the packages that I am doing this for are acs and chorop

[R] install.packages and package dependencies

It appears that install.packages does not automatically install package dependencies when the package is installed via a URL. As an example, here is what I get when I attempt to install the latest ggplot2 tarball via its URL on CRAN: > install.packages(" https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggpl