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Just confirming: If I distribute my R package as ZIP/TAR then installing the package will not automatically download/install dependencies because I have to set repos = NULL in install.packages() and dependencies parameter is not used if repos = NULL? The way to possibly get this to work is to package an install script. Is that possible? Am I completely missing something here and there is a mechanism to install from source AND automagically download and install dependencies?
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Remember in R, Boolean (TRUE and FALSE) must be all capital letters or R will not recognize them as Boolean. At the top, got to Tools and select Install Packages from the drop down. Finally, make sure install dependencies and checked and click install.
R uses a single package library for each installed version of R on your machine. Fortunately it is easy to modify the path where R installs your packages. To do this, you simply call the function . libPaths() and specify the library location.
The devtools package has a function install. If used on a directory containing the source code for an R package, it will install that package and download any dependencies from CRAN.
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You could make your own repository and set repos to be a vector of the places to look for packages, where it would start with your own repository and then include a link to a CRAN mirror. This is what I do and it works quite nicely, as then I can easily share my packages with others and update them from whatever computer I happen to be on.
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