Task Automation Tools/Scripts Built in R
While CRAN is still by far the most popular repository for R packages, you will find quite a lot of packages that are only available from GitHub. Furthermore, if you'd liked to try out the latest development versions of the {automaton} package you will have to install them from GitHub.
Before you can install any package from GitHub, you need to install the {remotes} package from CRAN.
install.packages("remotes")
Now you can install any package from GitHub by providing "username/repository" as argument to remotes::install_github(). For example, to install the latest development version of {automaton} from GitHub run this command.
remotes::install_github("mohitshrestha/automaton")
Please note that installing a package from GitHub means that you have to install it from source. This requires a proper development environment including (at the minimum) a C and FORTRAN compiler. On Linux and macOS that's a given but on Windows it's not. More on that below where I discuss the difference between installing binaries vs. installing from source.
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