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/myrepo/mypackage";)
?
This would allow the distribution of packages that need compilation without
requiring that the user set up a build system and would leverage R's
ability to find and install dependencies (by stringing together multiple
URLs in the 'repos' parameter). Of course there's a greater burden on the
package provider, who has to build their package for Mac and Windows.
It strikes me that this could be a good way to decentralize CRAN, allowing
it to be maintained by package owners rather than a central authority.
I searched around but could not find examples of people using Github in
this way.
Bruce Hoff
Sage Bionetworks
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