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2015 Mar 12
1
Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?
Hi Dirk,
I'm interested in pursing this but I haven't been able to figure how to to
make it work. Here's what I have so far:
install.packages("drat")
library(drat)
addRepo("arilamstein")
I (obviously) have a copy of the choroplethrZip github repo locally. I
typed:
git checkout gh-pages
git push
I gather that this is what I needed to to do make the repo web-accessible.
Although I found this step a bit confusing because it looks like github has
a pages feature for both accounts and projects.
And now the instructions say to type...
2015 Mar 12
2
Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?
I have just written a package called choroplethrZip
<https://github.com/arilamstein/choroplethrZip> which contains a shapefile
and metadata on US Zip codes. It is currently hosted on github, has a
tagged version number (v1.0.0) and passes R CMD check as verified by
Travis. My plan is to use this in the next version of my package choroplethr
&l...
2015 Mar 12
2
Best way to handle dependency on non-CRAN package / large data package?
Thanks Dirk. I'm looking at it now.
At first glance your documentation brings up a good limitation of simply
telling users to type "devtools::install_github()". Namely, what happens
when the census bureau updates their shapefiles, and I subsequently decide
to update the package? Or if I discover an error in the package and decide
to update it? The choroplethr package could have a