Building meta-packages (e.g. tidyverse) to centralize multiple packages

[maurolepore]

Do you find yourself repeatedly installing or loading the same packages? How about building a meta-package?

The main goal of a meta-package is to install and load other packages (a famous example is the tidyverse package). But also you may use the pkgdown website of a meta-package as a kind of meeting point for all the packages it gathers (e.g. tidyverse; fgeo).

It turns out that building a meta-package is surprisingly simple. The source code of the tidyverse is an excellent template. You could use it to build your own meta-package, or we could generalize it to create a package that creates a meta-package. Is this getting too meta?
:)

[maurolepore]

Summary: Building a package to create a meta-package, such as the tidyverse.

[pkq]

FYI, @mkearney built the pkgverse package to create meta-packages. 💥