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Install R packages from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, git, svn repositories, URLs
https://remotes.r-lib.org/
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document '<package>=' prefix in vignette? #744

Open kevinushey opened 1 year ago

kevinushey commented 1 year ago

This is mentioned in ?remotes:::parse_repo_spec, e.g.

parse_repo_spec("igraph=igraph/rigraph") ## Different package name from repo name

But, to the best of my knowledge, this usage isn't documented anywhere else. Could we also add an example of this sort of usage to the Dependencies vignette?