createCluster sourcePackageToInstall parameter

[Hideyoshi Maeda]

Hi,

I would like to source a package to be installed when setting up clusters. The package is my own that I have made, and I have converted it into a tar.gz file but cannot work out how to get it to be installed on the cluster instances.

to make a reproducible example with an existing package I downloaded the devtools package from cran as a tar.gz file and tried to have that set up as an sourcePackageToInstall parameter

here is my example, should I be doing something different?:

require(segue)

myCluster <- createCluster(5, sourcePackagesToInstall = c('/Users/Hideyoshi/Downloads/devtools_0.8.tar.gz'))

resulting the following output

[1] "INFO: Now building sources packages to install and uploading them based on the sourcePackagesToInstall list."

[1] "INFO: Source packages uploaded."

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Thanks HLM