Tired of calling install.packages() only to discover the package lives on Bioconductor? Sick of cluttered install messages and broken workflows? libraryR() solves it.
This convenience function automatically checks if the given package(s) are installed. If not, it attempts installation from CRAN, and if that fails, falls back to Bioconductor — all silently and without interrupting your script. It supports both quoted and unquoted inputs and gives clean, minimal console output via cli.
It also politely notes when a package is already loaded.
Ideal for reproducible R workflows and anyone who values automation and sanity.
pkg: A single package name or a character vector of package names. Quoted and unquoted formats are both supported.
Invisibly returns a named logical vector indicating whether each package was successfully loaded.
# Load multiple packages, install if needed
libraryR(c("limma","Non_existing_package", "dplyr", "BiocManager"))
# Also works with unquoted names (non-standard evaluation)
libraryR(dplyr)
# Calling it on the package itself triggers a fun easter egg
libraryR("RRLab") 