A Helpful Way to Install R Packages Hosted on GitHub

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Documentation for package ‘githubinstall’ version 0.2.2

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
• Package NEWS.

Help Pages

gh_install_packages	Install Packages from GitHub
gh_list_packages	Get Information of Packages on GitHub
gh_search_packages	Search Packages from Titles by Regular Expressions
gh_show_source	Find source code for functions in packages on GitHub
gh_suggest	Suggest Github Repository from a Incomplete Name
gh_suggest_username	Suggest Github Username from a Faint Memory
gh_update_package_list	Update the List of Packages on GitHub.
githubinstall	Install Packages from GitHub
recommend_dependencies	The default "dependencies" is NA that means c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo"). If "build_vignettes" is TRUE, the install needs "Suggests" dependency in many cases. So we recommend in such case to set "dependencies" to TRUE that means c("Depends", "Imports", "LinkingTo", "Suggests").
remove_conflict_repos	We want to detect the two conflict cases as fllows: 1. The package is already installed from some repository like CRAN that is not GitHub. 2. The package is already installed from GtiHub but the username differs. In the above cases, we ask whether to overwrite it and remove from "repo" if the answer is no.
select_repository	Suggest candidates from "package_name" and make user selected one of them.
separate_into_package_and_reference	The "repo" argument allows to contain "ref" as "package_name@ref", "package_name#pull" or "package_name[branch]". The function detects that "repo" contains "ref" and separates into pure repo and ref. If "repo" contains "ref" and "ref" argument is specified, the values in "repo" take precedence.