similar to: Loading multiple packages with install.packages()...

If you can get a vector with all the package names (I do not know how to do this) then you could do something like this; # Function to check and install missing packages install_if_missing <- function(pkg) { if (!require(pkg, character.only = TRUE)) { install.packages(pkg, dependencies = TRUE) } library(pkg, character.only = TRUE) } # List of required packages. packages <-