install {devtools}

Install a local development package.

Description

Uses ⁠R CMD INSTALL⁠ to install the package. Will also try to install dependencies of the package from CRAN, if they're not already installed.

Usage

install(
  pkg = ".",
  reload = TRUE,
  quick = FALSE,
  build = !quick,
  args = getOption("devtools.install.args"),
  quiet = FALSE,
  dependencies = NA,
  upgrade = "default",
  build_vignettes = FALSE,
  keep_source = getOption("keep.source.pkgs"),
  force = FALSE,
  ...
)

Arguments

pkg

The package to use, can be a file path to the package or a package object. See as.package() for more information.

reload

if TRUE (the default), will automatically reload the package after installing.

quick

if TRUE skips docs, multiple-architectures, demos, and vignettes, to make installation as fast as possible.

build

if TRUE pkgbuild::build()s the package first: this ensures that the installation is completely clean, and prevents any binary artefacts (like ‘.o’, .so) from appearing in your local package directory, but is considerably slower, because every compile has to start from scratch.

args

An optional character vector of additional command line arguments to be passed to ⁠R CMD INSTALL⁠. This defaults to the value of the option "devtools.install.args".

quiet

If TRUE, suppress output.

dependencies

Which dependencies do you want to check? Can be a character vector (selecting from "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests", or "Enhances"), or a logical vector.

TRUE is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo" and "Suggests". NA is shorthand for "Depends", "Imports" and "LinkingTo" and is the default. FALSE is shorthand for no dependencies (i.e. just check this package, not its dependencies).

The value "soft" means the same as TRUE, "hard" means the same as NA.

You can also specify dependencies from one or more additional fields, common ones include:

• Config/Needs/website - for dependencies used in building the pkgdown site.

• Config/Needs/coverage for dependencies used in calculating test coverage.

upgrade

Should package dependencies be upgraded? One of "default", "ask", "always", or "never". "default" respects the value of the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE environment variable if set, and falls back to "ask" if unset. "ask" prompts the user for which out of date packages to upgrade. For non-interactive sessions "ask" is equivalent to "always". TRUE and FALSE are also accepted and correspond to "always" and "never" respectively.

build_vignettes

if TRUE, will build vignettes. Normally it is build that's responsible for creating vignettes; this argument makes sure vignettes are built even if a build never happens (i.e. because build = FALSE).

keep_source

If TRUE will keep the srcrefs from an installed package. This is useful for debugging (especially inside of RStudio). It defaults to the option "keep.source.pkgs".

force

Force installation, even if the remote state has not changed since the previous install.

...

additional arguments passed to remotes::install_deps() when installing dependencies.

Details

If quick = TRUE, installation takes place using the current package directory. If you have compiled code, this means that artefacts of compilation will be created in the ⁠src/⁠ directory. If you want to avoid this, you can use build = TRUE to first build a package bundle and then install it from a temporary directory. This is slower, but keeps the source directory pristine.

If the package is loaded, it will be reloaded after installation. This is not always completely possible, see reload() for caveats.

To install a package in a non-default library, use withr::with_libpaths().

See Also

update_packages() to update installed packages from the source location and with_debug() to install packages with debugging flags set.

Other package installation: uninstall()