Don't know what went wrong, but if people need a package to run a script, how do you solve it? Manual install surely more risky.
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Replying to @lakens
for some users on 'locked' systems, the action = 'contact your system administrator'
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Replying to @dalejbarr @lakens
for some packages / OSs, installation will require additional libraries ('curl', 'pandoc', etc)
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Replying to @dalejbarr @lakens
some expert users might have code that will break if packages are updated through the install process. Best leave user to decide
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Replying to @dalejbarr @lakens
I understand where you are coming from re:usability, but installing packages is very basic and risk outweighs benefits
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Replying to @dalejbarr
How to install package 2nd most popular R-bloggers post ever. Basic? I don't think so. Not for my 2700 coursera learners.
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Replying to @lakens
? install.packages("package") is a one-liner in the console
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Replying to @dalejbarr @lakens
If they can't even do this, don't bother giving them the script, just send them a PDF RMarkdown report of the results
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So I tell them to type in the code and run it. 1) x% will make a mistake. 2) benefit vs. providing this code is 0.
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Replying to @lakens @dalejbarr
I usually provide a code line with install.packages and comment it out. If they need to they can run it by cut and paste
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use pacman instead. It automatically installs if necessary.
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That's even worse, auto installing a package made to auto install packages! Who'd make that? ;)
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