`devtools::install_github('richfitz/stevedore')`

[englianhu]

If using the stevedore package you can use the convience wrappers in this pacakge:

install_splash()
splash_container <- start_splash()

and then run:
stop_splash(splash_container)

There has a stevedore package from https://github.com/hrbrmstr/splashr above.

devtools::install_github('richfitz/stevedore')