Install own R package via function in R

Question

When I build my own package in RStudio I click on "Install and restart" in the Build-tab. I'm wondering if I could do this via a function. I've seen that some code is running ( meinpaket is the package's name):

Rcmd.exe INSTALL --no-multiarch --with-keep.source meinpaket

So I've tried the following:

system("Rcmd.exe INSTALL --no-multiarch --with-keep.source meinpaket")

I've tried it with shell , too.

I get the following error message:

Warning: invalid package 'meinpaket' Error: ERROR: no packages specified

Answer 1

You can zip your package (use the "build from source" command in RStudio to do the whole process including help and vignetts) and then install.packages() pointing to the zip file.