R help - Mar 2010 - How to install dependent packages automatically

Hi,

I developed a package that requires 5 other packages. I was wondering if
anyone knows how can I automatically download and install the required
packages during the installation of my new package. My idea is to make this
process easier to the final user.

All the required packages are under bioconductor source but I don't know
where I can include the code to download and install them.

Manually, I generally use the code:

source("http//bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
biocLite(c("packageA", "packageB"...etc))

Any idea?

Thank you.


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Raphael Aggio
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On 10.03.2010 23:45, Raphael Aggio wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I developed a package that requires 5 other packages. I was wondering if
> anyone knows how can I automatically download and install the required
> packages during the installation of my new package. My idea is to make this
> process easier to the final user.
>
> All the required packages are under bioconductor source but I don't
know
> where I can include the code to download and install them.
>
> Manually, I generally use the code:
>
> source("http//bioconductor.org/biocLite.R")
> biocLite(c("packageA", "packageB"...etc))
>
> Any idea?


No idea about biocLite. Youn may want to ask ion the BioC lists for help 
on that one.

Anyway, for those of us using imnstall.packages():

install.packages("yourPackage", dependencies=TRUE)

See ?install.packages

Best,
Uwe Ligges



> Thank you.
>
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