[R-pkg-devel] Has GitHub been used as a CRAN-style repository?

[Brian O'Meara]

In addition to drat, R-forge may already do what you want: it's not
completely decentralized, but it still allows distribution of packages,
including binaries, without checking by CRAN maintainers (and it can build
binaries for you for some platforms). Work on R-Hub was funded as the next
generation of CRAN + R-Forge:  https://github.com/r-hub/proposal.

Best,
Brian


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Brian O'Meara
Associate Professor
Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
U. of Tennessee, Knoxville
http://www.brianomeara.info



On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Ben Bolker <bbolker at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>    Check out the drat package.
>
> On 16-04-27 09:00 AM, Bruce Hoff wrote:
> > Dear All:
> >
> > devtools::install_github() is great but, as I understand it, limited to
> > installing from source code.  Is there any precedent for using a public
> > repository like GitHub as a CRAN-style repository, so that one can
> install
> > like so:
> >
> > install.packages("mypackage", repos= "
> https://github.com/myrepo/mypackage")
> >
> > ?
> > This would allow the distribution of packages that need compilation
> without
> > requiring that the user set up a build system and would leverage R's
> > ability to find and install dependencies (by stringing together multiple
> > URLs in the 'repos' parameter).  Of course there's a greater burden on
> the
> > package provider, who has to build their package for Mac and Windows.
> >
> > It strikes me that this could be a good way to decentralize CRAN,
> allowing
> > it to be maintained by package owners rather than a central authority.
> >
> > I searched around but could not find examples of people using Github in
> > this way.
> >
> > Bruce Hoff
> > Sage Bionetworks
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