Install a specific version of a package

Install a package from CRAN of a specific version.

Usage

cran_version(package, version, ...)

Arguments

package

Name of the package present on CRAN archive.

version

The version number.

...

Other arguments passed to install.packages.

Value

Same as install.packages().

Details

Uses CRAN specific API https://cran.r-project.org/package=%s&version=%s to install a package. As this is an archived copy we only use source version.

References

CRAN pages.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
cran_version("repo.data", "0.1.5", lib = tempdir())
} # }