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Installing a local package that's not a .tar.gz

I'm working on a script that creates a package in the current directory (using pdInfoBuilder from BioConductor), and I'd like to install it while the script is running. install.packages() with repo=NULL seems like an obvious choice, but this seems to only except package directories tarballed and gzipped. Is there a way I can override this, since the create.pkg() function doesn't create a *.tar.gz? Currently I am using:

R CMD INSTALL package.name

Thanks, Vince

Solution

  • If it's a source file, then use install.packages() and set the repos=NULL:

    install.packages(file_name_and_path, repos = NULL, type="source")

    See this related question: How do I install an R package from source?