custom remote types

[dseynaev]

Is there a way to implement custom remote types e.g. by implementing an install_*() in a third-party package?

My apologies if this has been asked before or is mentioned somewhere but I couldn't find anything with a quick search.

[jimhester]

No, there is not currently a way to do this.

In order to support it the internal S3 generic methods would have to be exported.

remotes/R/install-remote.R

Lines 155 to 160 in 7720273

	is.remote <- function(x) inherits(x, "remote")
	remote_download <- function(x, quiet = FALSE) UseMethod("remote_download")
	remote_metadata <- function(x, bundle = NULL, source = NULL, sha = NULL) UseMethod("remote_metadata")
	remote_package_name <- function(remote, ...) UseMethod("remote_package_name")
	remote_sha <- function(remote, ...) UseMethod("remote_sha")

And the lookup at

remotes/R/deps.R

Lines 499 to 500 in 7720273

	fun <- get(paste0(tolower(type), "_remote"),
	envir = environment(sys.function()), mode = "function", inherits = FALSE)

would have to change in order to support custom remotes in external packages.