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library('devtools') | |
library('utils') | |
library('httr') | |
update_github <- | |
function(ask = TRUE, ...){ | |
installed <- installed.packages() | |
oldVersion <- installed[,'Version'] | |
urls <- sapply(names(oldVersion), function(x){ | |
d <- packageDescription(x) | |
if('URL' %in% names(d) && grepl('github',d$URL)) | |
urlout <- strsplit(d$URL,'github.com/')[[1]][2] | |
if('BugReports' %in% names(d) && grepl('github',d$BugReports)){ | |
urlout <- gsub('/issues','',d$BugReports) | |
urlout <- strsplit(urlout,'github.com/')[[1]][2] | |
} else | |
urlout <- NULL | |
return(urlout) | |
}) | |
toUpdate <- cbind.data.frame(urls=unlist(urls), | |
oldVersion=unname(oldVersion)[!sapply(urls, is.null)], | |
stringsAsFactors=FALSE) | |
toUpdate$newerVersion <- apply(toUpdate, 1, function(x){ | |
desc <- paste('https://raw2.github.com/', x[1], '/master/DESCRIPTION', sep='') | |
tmp <- tempfile() | |
writeLines(content(GET(desc)), tmp) | |
desc <- read.dcf(tmp) | |
if(package_version(desc[,'Version']) > package_version(x[2])) | |
return(TRUE) | |
else | |
return(FALSE) | |
}) | |
#print(toUpdate) # just for quick debugging purposes | |
if (ask) { | |
if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows" || .Platform$GUI == | |
"AQUA" || (capabilities("tcltk") && capabilities("X11"))) { | |
k <- select.list(toUpdate[toUpdate$newerVersion==TRUE,1], | |
toUpdate[toUpdate$newerVersion==TRUE,1], multiple = TRUE, | |
title = "Packages to be updated", graphics = TRUE) | |
} | |
else | |
k <- text.select(toUpdate[,1]) | |
} else | |
k <- toUpdate[,1] | |
# install from Github | |
sapply(k, function(x){ | |
tryCatch(install_github(x, ...), error = function(e) NULL) | |
}) | |
installed2 <- installed.packages() | |
newVersion <- installed2[rownames(installed2) %in% rownames(toUpdate),'Version'] | |
toUpdate <- cbind(toUpdate, newVersion) | |
return(toUpdate) | |
} |
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