R: Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows

# Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows

## Documentation for package ‘Require’ version 1.0.1

- DESCRIPTION file
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation
- Package NEWS
- Package README

## Help Pages

Require-package | Require: Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows
.downloadFileMasterMainAuth | GITHUB_PAT-aware and 'main'-'master'-aware download from GitHub
.installed.pkgs | Partial alternative (faster) to 'installed.packages'
available.packagesCached | Available and archived versions
availablePackagesOverride | Create a custom "available.packages" object
availableVersionOK | Needs 'VersionOnRepos', 'versionSpec' and 'inequality' columns
cacheClearPackages | Clear Require Cache elements
cacheDefaultDir | The default cache directory for Require Cache
cacheDir | Path to (package) cache directory
cacheGetOptionCachePkgDir | Get the option for 'Require.cachePkgDir'
cachePkgDir | Path to (package) cache directory
cachePurge | Purge everything in the Require cache
checkLibPaths | Creates the directories, and adds version number
checkPath | Check directory path
checkPath-method | Check directory path
clearRequirePackageCache | Clear Require Cache elements
compareVersion2 | Compare package versions
dealWithMissingLibPaths | Only checks for deprecated libPath argument (singular)
DESCRIPTIONFileOtherV | GitHub package tools
DESCRIPTIONFileVersionV | GitHub package tools
detachAll | Detach and unload all packages
dlArchiveVersionsAvailable | Available and archived versions
dlGitHubDESCRIPTION | GitHub package tools
doLibPaths | Deals with missing libPaths arg, and takes first
envPkgCreate | 1st level -> create the .pkgEnv object in Require
envPkgDepDepsCreate | 3rd level for deps #############################################
envPkgDepDESCFileCreate | 3rd level for DESCRIPTIONFile
extractInequality | Extract info from package character strings
extractPkgGitHub | Extract info from package character strings
extractPkgName | Extract info from package character strings
extractVersionNumber | Extract info from package character strings
fileRenameOrMove | Create link to file, falling back to making a copy if linking fails.
getDeps | The 'packages' argument may have up to 4 pieces of information for GitHub packages: name, repository, branch, version. For CRAN-alikes, it will only be 2 pieces: name, version. There can also be an inequality or equality, if there is a version.
getRequireOptions | 'Require' options
Install | Require: Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows
invertList | Invert a 2-level list
joinToAvailablePackages | Join a data.table with a 'Package' column to 'available.packages'
linkOrCopy | Create link to file, falling back to making a copy if linking fails.
masterMainToHead | This converts master or main to HEAD for a git repo
messageDF | Use message to print a clean square data structure
messageVerbose | Use message to print a clean square data structure
messageVerboseCounter | Use message to print a clean square data structure
modifyList2 | 'modifyList' for multiple lists
modifyList3 | 'modifyList' for multiple lists
normPath | Normalize filepath
normPath-method | Normalize filepath
paddedFloatToChar | Convert numeric to character with padding
pakEnv | 2nd level
parseGitHub | Parse a github package specification
pkgDep | Reverse package depends
pkgDep2 | Reverse package depends
pkgDepEnv | 2nd level
pkgDepIfDepRemoved | Package dependencies when one or more packages removed
pkgDepTopoSort | Reverse package depends
pkgSnapshot | Take a snapshot of all the packages and version numbers
pkgSnapshot2 | Take a snapshot of all the packages and version numbers
purgeCache | Purge everything in the Require cache
Require | Require: Installing and Loading R Packages for Reproducible Workflows
RequireOptions | 'Require' options
rmBase | Recursive function to remove '.basePkgs'
rversions | R versions
setdiffNamed | Like 'setdiff', but takes into account names
setLibPaths | Set '.libPaths'
setLinuxBinaryRepo | Setup for binary Linux repositories
setup | Setup a project library, cache, options
setupOff | Setup a project library, cache, options
sourcePkgs | A list of R packages that should likely be installed from Source, not Binary
splitKeepOrderAndDTIntegrity | 'split' for a data.table that keeps integrity of a column of lists of data.table objects
sysInstallAndDownload | download.files or install.packages in a separate process
tempdir2 | Make a temporary (sub-)directory
tempfile2 | Make a temporary subfile in a temporary (sub-)directory
trimVersionNumber | Trim version number off a compound package name
updatePackages | Update installed packages with latest available versions