installFoundDepends {tools}

R Documentation

A function to install unresolved dependencies

Description

This function will take the Found element of a pkgDependsList object and attempt to install all of the listed packages from the specified repositories.

Usage

installFoundDepends(depPkgList, ...)

Arguments

depPkgList	A Found element from a pkgDependsList object
...	Arguments to pass on to install.packages

Details

This function takes as input the Found list from a pkgDependsList object. This list will have element names being URLs corresponding to repositories and the elements will be vectors of package names. For each element, install.packages is called for that URL to install all packages listed in the vector.

Author(s)

Jeff Gentry

See Also

pkgDepends, install.packages

Examples

## Set up a temporary directory to install packages to
tmp <- tempfile()
dir.create(tmp)

pDL <- pkgDepends("tools",local=FALSE)
installFoundDepends(pDL$Found, destdir=tmp)

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