drat (CRAN, GitHub, docs) makes it easy to host your own CRAN-like repositories for packages (or data).

Many users have started their own drat repo by forking the original GitHub repo -- but as time passes this code repo accumulates more code for drat, as well as documentation making it less of an ideal place to start for your own repo. So this repo offers an alternative:

• Just fork this repo into your own domain, and you have a working drat repo.
• Enable GitHub Pages with the docs/ folder in the main branch:

Note, however, that you currently must use the drat package directly from its GitHub repo in order to use GitHub Pages off docs/ in the main branch---and you need to enable this, e.g. via options(dratBranch="docs") as the released version only supports a gh-pages branch. So in a sense this repo is currently "experimental" as is the support in the not-yet-released drat version.

This repo was initiated (using command dratPackage()) with the source and windows binary of the last CRAN release of drat. You can delete either or both (for example via command pruneRepo()) and then add your own (via insertPackage()).

Source: https://eddelbuettel.github.io/drat/vignettes/dratstepbystep/

library(drat)
options(dratBranch="docs")   # to default to using docs/ as we set up
insertPackage(file=c("quacking/quacking_1.2.3.tar.gz", 
                     "quacking/quacking_1.2.3.zip"), 
              repodir="drat/")

(the options command can be included in "~/.Rprofile" so that it's global). The package to upload on the drat repo doesn't have to be in the same folder as the wd, full path can be applied.

Then update the repo with usual git add/git commit -m "..."/git push.

To test whether the package can be installed from your new repository, type in R

install.packages("quacking", repos="https://yourname.github.io/drat")

Dirk Eddelbuettel

GPL (>= 2)