devtools (version 1.8.0)

install_local: Install a package from a local file

Description

This function is vectorised so you can install multiple packages in a single command.

Usage

install_local(path, subdir = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path

path to local directory, or compressed file (tar, zip, tar.gz tar.bz2, tgz2 or tbz)

subdir

subdirectory within url bundle that contains the R package.

...

Other arguments passed on to install.

Examples

dir <- tempfile()
dir.create(dir)
pkg <- download.packages("testthat", dir, type = "source")
install_local(pkg[, 2])