Hi Posit Community.
Apologies if this is in the documentation and I simply missed it, but I was wondering how to structure a devtools call to install a specific branch of a locally stored R project that is a package I'm actively updating.
So far, I have been just calling the branch from gitlab after downloading the specific branch using the following:
In bash terminal:
git clone -b dev https://gitlab.<group>.org/<package_under_development>.git
In R terminal
library(devtools)
package_under_development = devtools::build("~/path/to/<package_under_development>")
devtools::install_local(package_under_development)
But going forward, I will be updating the package in one project folder and installing and running it in another project folder on the same server.
As it's good practice to test in a dev branch before merging to the main one, I'd like to know what shape a devtools call would take to install the package from my local copy of the other git-backed project specific to the dev branch.
The only the install_git call seemed to have a specific branch argument and the none of the others including install_local did not seem to have this.
Any advice on how to structure this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
-Thomas