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A method to automatically download, install and load R packages that only requires the package name to be typed once. Credits: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8176099/1036500 & http://stackoverflow.com/a/4090208/1036500
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auto-install-and-load-packages.R
list.of.packages <- c("xx", "yy") # replace xx and yy with package names
new.packages <- list.of.packages[!(list.of.packages %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
if(length(new.packages)) install.packages(new.packages)
lapply(list.of.packages, require, character.only=T)
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Howquez commented Feb 19, 2020

Salut,

do you have suggestions on how to (elegantly) include githubinstall() or install_github() to this?

Thanks in advance

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