Package dependencies when installing from source in R

Question

Just confirming: If I distribute my R package as ZIP/TAR then installing the package will not automatically download/install dependencies because I have to set repos =

Answer 1

If you have a Github account myname, push your R package to a repo mypackage. Then just call devtools::install_github("myname/mypackage"). Package mypackage will be downloaded and installed as will all the dependencies listed under Imports in the DESCRIPTION file.