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 generation of CRAN + R-Forge: https://github.com/r-hub/proposal.
Best, Brian _______________________________________ Brian O'Meara Associate Professor Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology U. of Tennessee, Knoxville http://www.brianomeara.info On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Ben Bolker <bbol...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 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 > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
