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An R function for safe package loading / installation.
Fix for https://github.com/joshkatz/needs/issues/6
`needs` tries to modify the `Rprofile.site` file when answering the question: _Should `needs` load itself when it's... needed?_. On Windows, this requires administrator permission and results in the following error:...
While working with an automated Docker build benefiting from the needs library, it took a lot of extra work to respond to the autoload question when loading needs. I had...
Setting a custom CRAN mirror, for example using `.Rprofile`, doesn't appear to have an impact on `needs` as it does when calling `install.packages` directly. It appears to be hard coded...
``` > install.packages('needs') Installing package into ‘/home/gka/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.3’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) trying URL 'https://cran.biotools.fr/src/contrib/needs_0.0.3.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 5472 bytes ================================================== downloaded 5472 bytes Error in library(needs) : there is...
First off, this is an awesome package! I've been using this for a couple of months and it has been fulfilling my package-management needs... I'm encountering a bug where `needs`...
Instead of just being able to specify a version for a CRAN package, it would be great if one could also specify github sources for packages, to then be installed...