Enable install_github to specify a subdir of github repo to use as package root #64
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I'll take a shot at forking + provide pull request if others also find this useful -- just wanted to get some feedback on a good way to name/specify the |
I'd recommend working with |
To give another example where this could be useful: R-Forge subversion repositories also have this structure: the package are not at the root of the repository, but under a pkg directory off the root. |
I wonder if we also need an |
@lianos we would definitely find this feature really useful! We're exactly in the situation @BrianDiggs described: maintaining the dev-version in GitHub and pushing the releases to R-Forge for Win and Mac builds. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. |
Anyone have any repos I can test this on? |
Thanks for looking into this. Here's one repo you can test with: https://github.com/louhos/soRvi-dev/ Few notes:
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Currently,
install_github
assumes the that the repository named in the params served as the root of the R package.Adding support for a packge that looks like so would be helpful:
Imagine that the
R
subfolder ofmy-uber-project
repository is CRAN-stallable binding/part/whatever ofmy-uber-project
.You can imagine calling install_github something like:
Where
subdir
might support a character vector, eg. c('path', 'to', 'subfolder', 'with', 'R-pkg').The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: