R is great for installing software. Through the 'installr' package you can automate the updating of R (on Windows, using updateR()) and install new software. Software installation is initiated through a GUI (just run installr()), or through functions such as: install.Rtools(), install.pandoc(), install.git(), and many more. The updateR() command performs the following: finding the latest R version, downloading it, running the installer, deleting the installation file, copy and updating old packages to the new R installation.
| Version: | 0.17.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 2.11.0), utils |
| Suggests: | XML, devtools, rjson, data.table, plyr, ggplot2, sp, tools |
| OS_type: | windows |
| Published: | 2015-09-15 |
| Author: | Tal Galili [aut, cre, cph] (http://www.r-statistics.com), Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Boris Hejblum [ctb], Dason [ctb], Felix Schonbrodt [ctb], G. Grothendieck [ctb], GERGELY DAROCZI [ctb], Heuristic Andrew [ctb], James [ctb] (http://stackoverflow.com/users/269476/james), Thomas Leeper [ctb] (http://thomasleeper.com/), VitoshKa [ctb], Yihui Xie [ctb] (http://yihui.name), Michael Friendly [ctb] (http://datavis.ca/), Kornelius Rohmeyer [ctb] (http://algorithm-forge.com/techblog/), Dieter Menne [ctb], Tyler Hunt [ctb] (https://github.com/JackStat), Takekatsu Hiramura [ctb] (https://github.com/hiratake55), Berry Boessenkool [ctb] (https://github.com/BerryBoessenkool) |
| Maintainer: | Tal Galili <tal.galili at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/talgalili/installr/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| URL: | https://github.com/talgalili/installr/, http://www.r-statistics.com/tag/installr/ |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README NEWS ChangeLog |
| In views: | ReproducibleResearch |
| CRAN checks: | installr results |
| Reference manual: | installr.pdf |
| Package source: | installr_0.17.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: installr_0.17.0.zip, r-release: installr_0.17.0.zip, r-oldrel: installr_0.17.0.zip |
| OS X Snow Leopard binaries: | r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| OS X Mavericks binaries: | r-release: not available |
| Old sources: | installr archive |