Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Usage

install_task(
  origin,
  type = package_install_type(origin),
  INSTALL_opts = NULL,
  lib = lib_path(origin),
  env = options::opt("install_envvars"),
  ...
)

Arguments

origin

pkg_origin() object.

type

character, indicating the type of package to download and install. Will be "source" except on Windows and some macOS builds: see the section on ‘Binary packages’ for those.

INSTALL_opts

an optional character vector of additional option(s) to be passed to R CMD INSTALL for a source package install. E.g., c("--html", "--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load") or, for macOS, "--dsym".

Can also be a named list of character vectors to be used as additional options, with names the respective package names.

lib

Any object that can be passed to lib() to generate a library path.

env

Environment variables to set for the child process.

...

further arguments to be passed to download.file, available.packages, or to the functions for binary installs on macOS and Windows (which accept an argument "lock": see the section on ‘Locking’).

See also

Other tasks: check_task(), meta_task(), task()