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Install and load multiple R packages at once
# ipak function: install and load multiple R packages.
# check to see if packages are installed. Install them if they are not, then load them into the R session.
ipak <- function(pkg){
new.pkg <- pkg[!(pkg %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])]
if (length(new.pkg))
install.packages(new.pkg, dependencies = TRUE)
sapply(pkg, require, character.only = TRUE)
}
# usage
packages <- c("ggplot2", "plyr", "reshape2", "RColorBrewer", "scales", "grid")
ipak(packages)
@khaors
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khaors commented Mar 24, 2019

Just Awesome!!!! Thanks a lot

@JonathonMifsud
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Thank you for this!

@igorfarah
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Awesome!!

@sharonsunpeng
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Very useful function. Thanks for sharing this!

@timathomas
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I love this function!! Made an edit to install and/or load GitHub packages

ipak_gh <- function(pkg){
    new.pkg <- pkg[!(sub('.*/', '', pkg) %in% installed.packages()[, "Package"])]
    if (length(new.pkg)) 
        remotes::install_github(new.pkg, dependencies = TRUE)
    sapply(sub('.*/', '', pkg), require, character.only = TRUE)
}

# Example
ipak_gh(c("lmullen/gender", "mtennekes/tmap", "jalvesaq/colorout", "timathomas/neighborhood", "arthurgailes/rsegregation"))

@albertjimrod
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Another person happy thanks to you.
Thanks a lot.

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