Provides a replacement for utils::install.packages(repo = NULL).
I.e. it builds binary packages from source packages, and extracts the
compressed archives into the package library.
Compared to utils::install.packages() it
- Has robust support for installing packages in parallel.
- Fails immediately when the first package fails when installing multiple packages, rather than returning a warning.
- Uses the same code paths on all platforms, rather than similar (but not identical) code paths.
- Succeeds or fails atomically. Either the complete package is installed or it fails with an informative error message.
- Has additional tests for package validity before installing
- Always uses per-package lock files, to protect against simultaneous installation
- Has a robust set of tests, to ensure correctness and ease debugging installation issues.
Once on CRAN, install with
install.packages("pkginstall")files <- download.packages("remotes", type = "binary", ".")
pkginstall::install_binary(files[[2]])pkginstall is superseded: the functionality was included directly in the pkgdepends package, used by pak. We recommend using pak instead.