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This ghrr (for "GitHub Hosted R Repository") uses drat for both insertion of packages, and usage from R.

Current Content

Please see here for packages currently in the ghrr repo.

Usage: Drat Setup

Simply install the drat CRAN package the usual way via install.packages("drat", repos="http://cran.rstudio.com").

Add one line to your .Rprofile file (or to Rprofile.site):

drat:::add("ghrr")

That's it! Now use install.packages() or update.packages() and the ghrr will be considered just like the standard repositories for R.

Usage: Alternative

If you just want to install a package, or update once, you can also add the repo on the fly. For example,

install.packages("Rcpp", repos="https://ghrr.github.io/drat")

would install Rcpp from the ghrr repo (assuming a version is installed. And

update.packages(lib="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/", repos="https://ghrr.github.io/drat")

would update packages in the given library location relative to ghrr.

More

You can learn more about drat from the vignettes Drat for Package Users and Drat for Package Authors.