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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
