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A simple, reliable, string-based package loader for packages on CRAN.
getPackage <- function(pkg){
if(!require(pkg, character.only=TRUE)){
install.packages(pkg, dependencies=TRUE)
library(pkg, character.only=TRUE)
}
return(TRUE)
}
getPackages <- function(pkgs){
for (pkg in pkgs){
getPackage(pkg)
}
return(TRUE)
}
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