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✅ Check if packages are installed and optionally install them

Source: R/check_pkg.R
check_pkg.Rd

A utility to check whether CRAN / GitHub / Bioconductor packages are installed, with optional auto-installation via inst_pkg().

Usage

check_pkg(
  pkg = NULL,
  source = c("CRAN", "GitHub", "Bioconductor"),
  auto_install = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

pkg

Character vector of package names or GitHub repos (e.g., "r-lib/devtools").

source

Package source: one of "CRAN", "GitHub", "Bioconductor". Case-insensitive.

auto_install

Logical. If TRUE (default), install missing packages automatically.

...

Additional arguments passed to inst_pkg().

Value

A tibble with columns: package, name, installed, source.

Examples

check_pkg("ggplot2", source = "CRAN")
#> ✔ Installed: ggplot2
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#>   package name    installed source
#>   <chr>   <chr>   <lgl>     <chr> 
#> 1 ggplot2 ggplot2 TRUE      CRAN  
check_pkg("r-lib/devtools", source = "GitHub", auto_install = FALSE)
#> ✔ Installed: devtools
#> # A tibble: 1 × 4
#>   package        name     installed source
#>   <chr>          <chr>    <lgl>     <chr> 
#> 1 r-lib/devtools devtools TRUE      GitHub