[R]: install the R package from R-multiverse

[eitsupi]

Hello.
I am around R-multiverse, a repository system for new R packages.

I did the registration work for this R package (r-multiverse/contributions#221) because I thought this repository is well maintained and could benefit from R-multiverse to make it easier to install the R package.
If you are interested, please check it out.
(Several packages not currently on CRAN (like https://github.com/pola-rs/r-polars) are recommended for installation from R-multiverse in the documentation.)

cc @shikokuchuo @wlandau

[WardBrian]

I'm not sure I understand the relationship between R-universe and R-multiverse -- are they in competition?

The Stan packages are all available on R-universe: https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev/

[shikokuchuo]

I'm not sure I understand the relationship between R-universe and R-multiverse -- are they in competition?

Not at all, R-multiverse is an extension of and built on R-universe and is a community initiative to provide a general-purpose repository for package releases (a single destination for users). R-multiverse also runs a system of Production snapshot releases.

You're free to still maintain personal / organization universes (for development, or internal use), but R-multiverse makes it easier to disseminate releases to the wider community.

[WardBrian]

Sounds good -- is there an alternative install.packages invocation we should list in our documentation for R?

[shikokuchuo]

install.packages("bridgestan", repos = c("https://community.r-multiverse.org", getOption("repos")))

The last part is so that dependencies (in this case R6) are still taken from the configured CRAN repo.

I'll also refer you to: https://r-multiverse.org/community.html

[roualdes]

Sounds good to me.