Download and install R packages stored in 'GitHub', 'GitLab', 'Bitbucket', 'Bioconductor', or plain 'subversion' or 'git' repositories. This package provides the 'install_*' functions in 'devtools'. Indeed most of the code was copied over from 'devtools'.
repositories
Download and install R packages stored in GitHub,
BitBucket, or plain subversion or git repositories. This package
is a lightweight replacement of the install_*
functions in
devtools
.
Indeed most of the code was copied over from devtools
.
Remotes
field in DESCRIPTION
. See more
here.Additional_repositories
field in DESCRIPTION
.Install the released version of remotes from CRAN:
install.packages("remotes")
You can also install remotes from GitHub. If you already have a previous version of remotes installed, you can use that to install the development version:
remotes::install_github("r-lib/remotes")
Alternatively, you can also call the supplied install-github.R
file
directly, from within R:
source("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/r-lib/remotes/master/install-github.R")$value("r-lib/remotes")
The https://install-github.me service is also based on remotes. You can use it to install any R package from GitHub via sourcing a URL. E.g. to install remotes itself:
source("https://install-github.me/r-lib/remotes")
Note that most of the examples here use GitHub. See below for other supported repository types.
To install the latest version of a package in the master
branch from
GitHub, you can use the user/repo
form. Note that user
can also be
an organization:
remotes::install_github("r-lib/conflicted")
If the R package is inside a subdirectory of the root directory, then give this subdirectory as well:
remotes::install_github("dmlc/xgboost/R-package")
To install a certain branch or commit or tag, append it to the
repo name, after an @
:
remotes::install_github("gaborcsardi/[email protected]")
To install the latest release, append @*release
to the repo
name:
remotes::install_github("gaborcsardi/[email protected]*release")
To install a pull request, append #
and the id (an integer number)
of the pull request to the repo name:
remotes::install_github("r-lib/pkgconfig#7")
Dependencies are automatically installed from CRAN. By default, outdated dependencies are automatically upgraded. In interactive sessions you can select a subset of the dependencies to upgrade.
It is also possible to install dependencies from GitHub or other
supported repositories. For this you need to add a Remotes
field to the
DESCRIPTION
file. Its format is:
Remotes: [remote::]repo_spec, [remote::]repo_spec, ...
where repo_spec
is any repository specification the corresponding
install_()
function can handle. If remote::
is missing, github::
is
assumed. Other possible values: gitlab::
,bitbucket::
, git::
, local::
,
svn::
, url::
, version::
, cran::
, bioc::
.
See more about the Remotes
field in this
vignette.
remotes supports the Additional_repositories
field in
DESCRIPTION
. This is a way to specify dependencies from non-CRAN
package repositories. See the Writing R extensions
manual for details.
Bioconductor packages are automatically detected and their dependencies are installed from Bioconductor.
install_github
.install_bitbucket
.install_git
. They need either a
system git installation, or the
git2r R package.install_local
.install_url
.install_svn
. They need
a system subversion installation.install_version
. This includes outdated
and archived packages as well.install_deps
.curl::curl_download
in that casedownload.file()
method is used.
(method = "auto"
)method = "wininet"
is used on windows OSmethod = "libcurl"
is used on other OS, if available.See help("download.file")
for informations on these methods and for
setting proxies if needed.
remotes will use the curl, git2r and pkgbuild packages if they are installed to provide faster implementations for some aspects of the install process. However if you are using remotes to install or update these packages (or their reverse dependencies) using them during installation may fail (particularly on Windows).
If you set the environment variable R_REMOTES_STANDALONE=true
(e.g.
in R Sys.setenv(R_REMOTES_STANDALONE="true")
) you can force remotes to
operate in standalone mode and use only its internal R implementations. This
will allow successful installation of these packages.
remotes uses the following standard R options, see ?options
for their
details:
download.file.method
for the default download method. See
?download.file
.
pkgType
for the package type (source or binary, see manual) to install,
download or look up dependencies for.
repos
for the locations of the user's standard CRAN(-like) repositoies.
It also uses some remotes specific options:
BioC_git
for the URL of the default Bioconductor git mirror.
unzip
for the path of the external unzip
program.
The BITBUCKET_USER
and BITBUCKET_PASSWORD
enrironment variables
are used for the default BitBucket user name and password, in
install_bitbucket()
The GITHUB_PAT
environment variable is used as the default GitHub
personal access token for all GitHub API queries.
The R_REMOTES_UPGRADE
environment variable can be used to set a default
preferred value for the upgrade =
argument accepted by the various
install_*()
functions. For example, you can set R_REMOTES_UPGRADE=always
to upgrade dependent packages without asking the user.
Setting R_REMOTES_STANDALONE=true
forces remotes to work in standalone
mode and avoid loading its optional dependencies (curl, git2 and pkgbuild
currently. See "Standalone mode" above.
Setting R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS=true
avoids stopping the
installation for warning messages. Warnings usually mean installation
errors, so by default remotes stops for a warning. However, sometimes
other warnings might happen, that could be ignored by setting this
environment variable.
Setting _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false
while
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS
is unset will also avoid stopping the
installation for error messages. This is done because a warning is generated
during installation when not all Suggested packages are not available.
GPL (>= 2) © Mango Solutions, RStudio
update.package_dependencies()
now uses the pkg_type for the cran remote
rather than a global type attribute, fixing errors when this global attribute
is lost (#291, #304).
Credentials are no longer passed to dependencies, as this breaks dependencies
which use different credentials or hosts. If you have relied on this behavior
a more robust way to provide the credentials is using the appropriate
environment variables, e.g. GITHUB_PAT
, BITBUCKET_USER
etc.
(@antoine-sachet, #345).
The hash of bitbucket hosts is now correctly retrieved (@antoine-sachet, #344)
Fix parsing of Additional_Repositories which have a leading newline (@tmelliott, #251).
The order of choices for upgrade = "ask"
now puts the stable ones 'All',
'CRAN only', 'none' first, so they always have the same numbers (#287).
update_submodules()
now works with empty .gitmodules files (@jsilve24, #329).
remotes now understands the "standard" remote type, as produced by packages
installed from CRAN using pak
(#309)
Fix return type of install_remote()
when there is a circular dependency (#225)
remote_package_name.github_remote()
now works properly on Windows (#248)
install_bioc()
repositories now updated for the Bioconductor 3.8 release.
(#239)
install_*
functions now set the R_LIBS*
environment variables for
child processes correctly on Windows (@HenrikBengtsson, #253)
install_*
functions now support the R_REMOTES_UPGRADE
environment
variable, to set the default for the upgrade
argument. See README for
details (@kevinushey, #240).
install_*
functions perform basic HTTP authentication using HTTP
headers now. This fixes an issue with install_bitbucket()
and private
repos (#255).
install_*
functions now respect the download.file.method
option,
if download_file()
is used for HTTP.
install_*
functions now use the libcurl method, if the
download.file.method
option is not set to a different one, and libcurl
is available. Before, the wininet method was preferred on Windows.
If you rely on the proxy configuration of wininet, then you might
want to set the download.file.method
option, or use another way to
set up proxies, see ?download.file
.
Remotes without package names are now unconditionally installed (#246).
install_github()
now includes a more informative error message when the
status code is 404, asking the user to check that they have spelled the
repo owner and repo correctly (included in the error message), and that
they have the required permissions to access the repository.
install_*
fuctions (via the underlying private install
function) now set
RGL_USE_NULL="TRUE"
in order to avoid errors when running headless
and installing any package using rgl
(@jefferis, ##333)
install_deps()
now installs un-installed remotes packages even when
upgrade = "never"
(@ankane, #227)
install_version()
now removes metadata added as a byproduct of using
install_url()
internally() (#224)
install()
now avoids converting warnings to errors if
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS
is unset and
_R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_=false
. This avoids failures due to Suggested
packages potentially being missing.
install_bitbucket()
now works properly with packages in subdirectories
(#220)
install_deps()
now installs un-installed packages even when upgrade = "never"
(#218)
install_github()
now bundles a GitHub PAT which is used on Travis to avoid
hitting the rate limit too frequently. It also contains a more informative
error message when the rate limit is hit on how to setup a GitHub personal
access token.
The dialog when upgrade = "ask"
now has a 'CRAN only' option, to update
only CRAN packages.
No longer include project specific .Rprofile code in the temporary .Rprofile when
R_REMOTES_NO_ERRORS_FROM_WARNINGS=false
(the default).
update.package_deps()
no longer prompts to install uninstalled
dependencies, they are always installed (#203).
available_packages()
, available_packages_set()
and
available_packges_reset()
added to allow caching of the
available.packages()
database.
install_github()
's previously deprecated username
argument has been
removed. (#142)
install_deps()
's threads
argument has been removed, use the Ncpus
argument instead (#153, #154)
install_git()
's branch
argument has been renamed to ref
and branch
has been deprecated.
remotes now builds packages by default before installing them. This step
uses the pkgbuild package, if avilable. If not, it calls R CMD build
directly.
New install_dev()
to install the development version of a CRAN package,
based on the URL and BugReports fields in the DESCRIPTION file (#144).
install_()*
functions now temporally put Rtools on the PATH when necessary,
as long as the pkgbuild package is installed.
remotes can be forced to use only its internal code by setting the
environment variable R_REMOTES_STANDALONE
= "true". This is useful when
installing optional dependencies of remotes on Windows, such as curl or git2r
(#147)
When installing, remotes now errors on warnings, to catch cases where packages are only partially installed. This often happens on windows when the package dll is opened in another R process (#113).
install_()
functions now pass arguments, including authentication
information and upgrade down to dependencies (#53, #86, #87).
install_()
functions allow the seclection of a subset of packages to
upgrade, in interactive mode, when upgrade = "ask"
.
install_git()
now supports passing credentials, when it is used with
git = "git2r"
(#106)
install_()
functions now return the name of the package(s) which were
installed (#55).
git submodules are now installed if they exist and a git client is available (#138, #133, #103, #82).
New install_gitlab()
and install_bioc()
functions, to install
gitlab
and bioc
remote types.
remotes now uses the same SHA updating logic for remotes as devtools, including checking if the SHA of the remote has changed since the last istallation. (#135)
install_url()
can now install package binaries on windows
(r-lib/devtools#1765)
install_deps()
et al. now do not rewrite the type
argument from both
to binary
to allow falling back to source
. This fixes various
installation failures.
remotes now looks up GitHub package names locally, if possible, and uses the GitHub REST API (if the curl package is available, and not in standalone mode). This makes the remote lookup about 10x faster when the remote package has not changed since the last install.
Using a GITHUB_PAT no longer prints diagnostic messages by default (r-lib/devtools#1752).
remotes now always uses https URLs for R versions that support them (@ankane, #139)
Do not include the BioCextra repository in versions after it was deprecated (R 3.5+, Bioc 3.6+).
install_()
functions now download tarballs (.tar.gz) files rather than zip
archives (.zip). This results in generally smaller files and avoids issues
with script permissions being lost and strange behavior of some external
unzip programs on Windows (#96).
Dependency parsing is now more robust to whitespace around the dependency specifications (#73).
standardise_dep()
exported, for use in devtools.
install_local()
now defaults to the current directory.
install_bitbucket()
now correctly supports authentication, and the
subdir
argument.
install_()
functions give a helpful warning when the package has long
path names, on Windows. In this case building the package usually fails.
(#84, #178).
install_()
functions have now a more robust way of handling various
tar programs on Windows (#172).
install_()
functions now give a helpful warning on older R versions,
on Windows, if R.home()
contains a space character. Installation
usually fails in this case.
GitHub API errors now give better error messages, including data about the API rate limits.
URL encode GitHub references, to allow installing from non-alphanumeric branch or tags, @krlmlr #38
Better cooperation with proxy servers, and better download method selection on Windows, @cderv, #45, #46
install_deps()
supports tar balls, #47
Allow training slash in GitHub repo specification, #54
Work around on some Linux systems, where unzip is set to the empty string, @HenrikBengtsson, #57
Check for circular dependencies while installing, #31
Updated BioConductor repo URLs for newer BioC versions
First public release.