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When we share an R script file with someone else, we assumed that they have already installed the required R packages. However, this is not always the case and for that reason, I strongly suggest adding this piece of code to every shared R script which requires a package. Let’s assume that your code requires the following three packages: “readxl“, “dplyr“, “multcomp” .
The script below checks, if the package exists, and if not, then it installs it and finally it loads it to R
mypackages<-c("readxl", "dplyr", "multcomp")
for (p in mypackages){
if(!require(p, character.only = TRUE)){
install.packages(p)
library(p, character.only = TRUE)
}
}
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