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Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Source: R/task_spec.R
install_task_spec.Rd

Create a task to install a package and dependencies

Usage

install_task_spec(type = getOption("pkgType"), INSTALL_opts = NULL, ...)

Arguments

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").

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

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Additional parameters passed to task_spec()

See also

Other tasks: check_task_spec(), checked-task-df, custom_install_task_spec(), rev_dep_check_tasks_df(), revdep_check_task_spec(), source_check_tasks_df(), task_spec()