My package uses webshot and phantomjs. I would like the package to run the command webshot::install_phantomjs during install so that the user doesn't have to do it.
Is this possible?
Thanks in advance!
https://r-pkgs.org/Code.html#when-you-do-need-side-effects
Found solution above.
Apparently there is no way to execute code during installation, but there are hooks for package load or attachment.
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I am sorry for the late answer. For the record, there are several ways to run code during installation, one is to use a configure script. E.g. this is how you would run an R script: purrr/configure at f67f77134cd258fced27834595c4091f49be62e1 · tidyverse/purrr · GitHub
OTOH for your use case it might be better to supply a function in the package that can download and install the external software. There are several examples for this in CRAN packages, e.g. webshot::install_phantomjs() is one.
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