[R] Install package automatically if not there?

[Joris Meys]

I've never seen R been Perl'd this nice before.

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Albert-Jan Roskam <fomcl at yahoo.com> wrote:
> require(pkg) || install.packages(pkg)
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> Cheers!!
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> Albert-Jan
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> --- On Thu, 6/24/10, Ralf B <ralf.bierig at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Ralf B <ralf.bierig at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R] Install package automatically if not there?
> To: "r-help at r-project.org" <r-help at r-project.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2010, 9:25 PM
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> Hi fans,
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> is it possible for a script to check if a library has been installed?
> I want to automatically install it if it is missing to avoid scripts
> to crash when running on a new machine...
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> Ralf
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