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Josiah

GHA power users. I have setup-r-dependencies workflow that installs _all_ packages in DESCRIPTION. Well, one of those isn't available and won't ever be. How can I only install `Imports` packages?

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Dirk Eddelbuettel

@josi There is a lovely snippet I recently game across in a Dockerfile from the data.table repo. Base only, and parses DESCRIPTION. Easy enough for you to adjust to only Imports as desired:

Code snippet taken from https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/blob/625022fa23db5bf507a60be7fef982a5178dbf47/.devcontainer/r-devel-clang-ubsan/Dockerfile#L10-L14 showing how to install Imports and Suggests from a DESCRIPTION file using only base R tools.
Jan 03, 2024, 05:57 PM·Public·Web
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Jan Gorecki

@eddelbuettel @josi Now there is even a package github.com/jangorecki/tools4pk :) quite interesting approach as well was given by Gabriel Becker on mailing list:
```
Rscript -e 'stopifnot(file.copy("DESCRIPTION",
file.path(tdir<-tempdir(), "PACKAGES")));

db<-available.packages(paste0("file://", tdir));
install.packages(setdiff(tools::package_dependencies(read.dcf("DESCRIPTION",
fields="Package")[[1L]], db, which="most")[[1L]],
installed.packages(priority="high")[,"Package"]))'
```

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