check packages required and install them if needed

diff --git a/bin/generate_md_episodes.R b/bin/generate_md_episodes.R
index 43bf65e118eea26b7900b3fd1a31d8ec2170ffd2..c121d68eff6fb86876a9bb9c882e2061b52e6b14 100644 (file)
--- a/bin/generate_md_episodes.R
+++ b/bin/generate_md_episodes.R
@@ -1,14 +1,28 @@
 generate_md_episodes <- function() {
 
-    if (require("knitr")) {
-        if (packageVersion("knitr") < '1.9.19') {
+    if (require("knitr") && packageVersion("knitr") < '1.9.19') {
             stop("knitr must be version 1.9.20 or higher")
-        }
     } else stop("knitr 1.9.20 or above is needed to build the lessons.")
 
     if (!require("stringr"))
         stop("The package stringr is required for generating the lessons.")
 
+    if (require("checkpoint")) {
+        required_pkgs <-
+            checkpoint:::projectScanPackages(project = "_episodes_rmd",
+                                             verbose=FALSE, use.knitr = TRUE)$pkgs
+    } else {
+        stop("The checkpoint package is required to build the lessons.")
+    }
+
+    missing_pkgs <- required_pkgs[!(required_pkgs %in% rownames(installed.packages()))]
+
+    if (length(missing_pkgs)) {
+        message("Installing missing required packages: ",
+                paste(missing_pkgs, collapse=", "))
+        install.packages(missing_pkgs)
+    }
+
     ## find all the Rmd files, and generates the paths for their respective outputs
     src_rmd <- list.files(pattern = "??-*.Rmd$", path = "_episodes_rmd", full.names = TRUE)
     dest_md <- file.path("_episodes", gsub("Rmd$", "md", basename(src_rmd)))