I need to acquire a tar.gz version of an R package from github. I'm not sure how that's possible. Downloading the package from Github results in a zip file.
For CRAN packages, I would do the following, using ggplot2
as an example:
download.packages(pkgs = "ggplot2", destdir = "package")
The tar.gz for a Github repo account/reponame
, branch branchname
can be found at
https://github.com/account/reponame/archive/branchname.tar.gz
Hat tip to jeroen/curl , where this trick is noted as a way to install curl without going through devtools (which uses curl)
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