Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Henrik Bengtsson
On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Ramon Diaz-Uriarte wrote: > Dear Bruce, > > > On Wed, 27-04-2016, at 19:00, Bruce Hoff wrote: >> Following up to my earlier post: It looks like Dirk Eddelbuettel has in >> fact built what I was asking for with 'drat', >> https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat. Th

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
Dear Bruce, On Wed, 27-04-2016, at 19:00, Bruce Hoff wrote: > Following up to my earlier post: It looks like Dirk Eddelbuettel has in > fact built what I was asking for with 'drat', > https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat. The element that I do not see in > 'drat' is a way to build Mac and Wind

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Bruce Hoff
Following up to my earlier post: It looks like Dirk Eddelbuettel has in fact built what I was asking for with 'drat', https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat. The element that I do not see in 'drat' is a way to build Mac and Windows binaries, so I have two follow up questons: (1) Has anyone extended

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Brian O'Meara
In addition to drat, R-forge may already do what you want: it's not completely decentralized, but it still allows distribution of packages, including binaries, without checking by CRAN maintainers (and it can build binaries for you for some platforms). Work on R-Hub was funded as the next generatio

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Bruce, As Ben and Thierry already mentioned (thanks!!) drat it pretty much designed to support that out of the box (but also supports repos elsewhere; however there are reasons such as gh-pages that make GitHub uniquely suited). I have some moderately strongly-held beliefs about how install_gith

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Ben Bolker
Check out the drat package. On 16-04-27 09:00 AM, Bruce Hoff wrote: > Dear All: > > devtools::install_github() is great but, as I understand it, limited to > installing from source code. Is there any precedent for using a public > repository like GitHub as a CRAN-style repository, so that on

Re: [R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
Dear Bruce, Have a look at drat: http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/drat.html I think that is what you are looking for. Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality

[R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

2016-04-27 Thread Bruce Hoff
Dear All: devtools::install_github() is great but, as I understand it, limited to installing from source code. Is there any precedent for using a public repository like GitHub as a CRAN-style repository, so that one can install like so: install.packages("mypackage", repos= "https://github.com/my