Re: [R-pkg-devel] install from github

2015-12-03 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Berry, Missed this this morning ... On 3 December 2015 at 09:40, Berry Boessenkool wrote: | is someone aware of a way to easily install a package hosted on github without using devtools::install_github? Sure, drat can help. A couple of people use it for their packages; Mark who already replied

Re: [R-pkg-devel] install from github

2015-12-03 Thread Mark van der Loo
>> is someone aware of a way to easily install a package hosted on github without using devtools::install_github? Personally, I love Dirk's[1] drat package. It allows authors to set up a personal CRAN-like system on their github pages. This means that the author of the package can decide when a (b

Re: [R-pkg-devel] install from github

2015-12-03 Thread Rainer M Krug
Berry Boessenkool writes: > Hi, > > is someone aware of a way to easily install a package hosted on github > without using devtools::install_github? > Does anyone else ever need to avoid devtools? Hi, Check out drat [https://github.com/eddelbuettel/drat] and for a description check out [http:/