Support install_github from devtools/remotes?

[davidedelvento]

It would be great if this role would support install_github (and related) from devtools or from remotes (which should be the same...)

Besides the convenience, some projects (e.g. R for jupyter notebooks) can only be installed this way.

Any plan or interest on supporting devtools/remotes?

[tersmitten]

Installation of packages from github.com is already supported, but I'm definitely interested in improving this and making more remotes available.

[davidedelvento]

Thanks for your answer. Can you please elaborate some or point me to the documentation on how to install from github in the current version?

[tersmitten]

There's an example in the Readme. You need to specify an organization/repository and a type (github)

[brooklynbagel]

I'd be glad to work on improving it as well since I submitted the original PR. I think adding additional remotes is a great idea. See the README here and you'll find an example.

[tersmitten]

Also have a look at the R-install-requirements script that is included in this role. We use this script to install requirements for shiny-apps (from a file)

[maxolasersquad]

Something like this would be nice.

    r_packages:
      - name: dplyr
      - name: mypersonal/project
        type: customer
        uri: [email protected]
        credentials:
          pub_key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub
          private_key: ~/.ssh/id_rsa

I'm not suggesting that this syntax is right, but something along these lines.