ppmtools

ppmtools is a package of tools for working with R and Posit Package Manager.

Warning

This package is currently a work-in-progress. Feel free to try it out and use it, but expect that any function names, arguments, or outputs may change in future updates. Feedback welcome anytime!

Installation

You can install the development version of ppmtools from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("rstudio/ppmtools")

Basic Configuration with Posit Public Package Manager

ppmtools can automatically configure R to install packages from Posit Package Manager. By default, this will set your CRAN repository to use Posit Public Package Manager (packagemanager.posit.co).

library(ppmtools)
configure()

Using Your Own Posit Package Manager server

If your organization uses professional Posit Package Manager, you can easily configure ppmtools to use your internal server. Set options("ppm.url") to the URL of your organization’s Package Manager server before calling configure().

library(ppmtools)
options(ppm.url = "http://packagemanager.mycompany.com")
configure()

Publishing packages to Package Manager

To publish your own packages to a local Package Manager source, use the publish() function.

Publishing packages requires an API Token for authentication. Obtain the necessary credentials from your Package Manager administrator and set the token in options("ppm.api_token"). Then use publish() with the name of the local source to publish to.

options(ppm.api_token = "<PPM API TOKEN>")
publish("localR")

To also publish a binary built version of your package, enabling faster installation for others without requiring a package build, add binary = TRUE to your publish() command.

publish("localR", binary = TRUE)

Package Manager APIs

Many of the commands for browsing the Package Manager remotely are available via R functions. For example, to view the packages available in a repository, use the list_packages() command:

list_packages(source="localR")

Browse all of the available functions in the package help using help(package="ppmtools").