[R] modifying a package installed via GitHub

[boB Rudis]

You can go to the package directory:

    cd /some/path/to/package

and do

    R CMD install .

from a command-line there.

Many github-based packages are also made using RStudio and you can
just open the .Rproj file (i.e. load it into R studio) and build the
package there which will install it.

The same-named package will overwrite what you have previously installed.

Just:

   devtools::install_github("owner/package")

to go back to the original.

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Steve E. <searl at vt.edu> wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I am working with a package installed via GitHub that I would like to
> modify. However, I am not sure how I would go about loading a 'local'
> version of the package after I have modified it, and whether that process
> would including uninstalling the original unmodified package (and,
> conversely, how to uninstall my local, modified version if I wanted to go
> back to the unmodified version available on GitHub).
>
> Any advice would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
>
>
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