[R] Installing required packages with an R package

[David Winsemius]

> On May 7, 2018, at 11:06 AM, Polychronis Kostoulas <polychronis.kostoulas at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> I am preparing an R-package and I would like to ask how do I make it check
> whether dependencies (i.e. other packages) are already installed in a
> machine and if they are not installed to automatically install them during
> its installation.
> 

The right place to ask is the package-dev mailing list. It is possible to list dependencies and then users can specify dependencies=TRUE in their call to install.packages. I also know that there have been super-packages that do install multiple other packages. When you issue the command `library(tidyverse)` you get a boatload of packages loaded at once, so why not look at that example. It has R code in several modules.  The other mechanism I've seen is to construct a github page that has the needed code.


> Thanks,
> Polychronis
> 
> Polychronis Kostoulas
> 
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David Winsemius
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