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quickinstall: Quick Installation of a Source Package

Description

Builds and install a minimal version of a package from its source directory.

Usage

quickinstall(
  path,
  destdir = NULL,
  vignettes = FALSE,
  force = TRUE,
  ...,
  lib.loc = if (!is.null(destdir)) TRUE
)

Value

quickinstall returns the path of the library where the package was installed.

Arguments

path

path to the package source directory

destdir

installation directory. If NULL, the package is installed in the default installation library. If NA, the package is installed in a temporary directory, whose path is returned as a value.

vignettes

logical that indicates if the vignettes should be rebuilt and installed.

force

logical that indicates if the package should be installed even if a previous installation exists in the installation library.

...

extra arguments passed to R.CMD

lib.loc

library specification. If TRUE then the installation directory destdir is added to the default library paths. This can be usefull if dependencies are installed in this directory. If NULL, then the default library path is left unchanged.