Add local packages to a miniCRAN repository.

Examine the contents of a directory specified by pkgPath for pre-built packages matching the names specified by pkgs, and add these to the miniCRAN repository.

Usage

addLocalPackage(
  pkgs = NULL,
  pkgPath = NULL,
  path = NULL,
  type = "source",
  Rversion = R.version,
  writePACKAGES = TRUE,
  deps = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE,
  build = FALSE
)

Arguments

pkgs

Character vector of packages to download

pkgPath

Character vector of directory location containing packages to be added. Note that pkgPath should be the parent directory of the package (i.e., the package directory path is constructed from file.path(pkgPath, pkgs)).

path

Destination download path. This path is the root folder of your new repository.

type

Possible values are (currently) "source", "mac.binary" and "win.binary": the binary types can be listed and downloaded but not installed on other platforms. Passed to download.packages().

Rversion

Version of R (only used if type is not source.) Defaults to R.version, but this can be specified as any of the following formats:

• a character string with the two digit R version, e.g. "3.1"

• a list with components major and minor

• the result of getRversion()

• the result of R.version

writePACKAGES

If TRUE, calls write_PACKAGES() to update the repository PACKAGES file.

deps

Not used. See note.

quiet

If TRUE, suppress status messages (if any), and the progress bar during download.

build

Logical indicating whether packages should be build prior to adding.

Value

Installs the packages and returns the new package index.

Details

To build a package from source and then add it, use build = TRUE. Note that package development libraries and the devtools package must be installed on your system in order to build packages.

Note

Currently, adding local packages does not check nor download their dependencies.

Author

Alex Chubaty

Examples

if (FALSE) {
 addLocalPackage("myPackage", "path/to/my/prebuilt/package",
                 "path/to/my/miniCRAN/repo")

 addLocalPackage("myPackage", "path/to/my/package/sourcecode",
                 "path/to/my/miniCRAN/repo", build = TRUE)
}