From a6d92a3083c2aa3e341bcf8bf820db559f7b94f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Baptiste <55843498+ddbaptiste@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:48:57 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] [bugfix] address error in `vapply()` in
 `ensure_packages()`

---
 R/utils.R | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/R/utils.R b/R/utils.R
index d150c74..debcd25 100644
--- a/R/utils.R
+++ b/R/utils.R
@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 ## Created: 2025-11-05                                                        ##
 ## Author: Dimitri Baptiste                                                   ##
 ## -----                                                                      ##
-## Last Modified: 2025-11-05                                                  ##
+## Last Modified: 2026-01-20                                                  ##
 ## Modified By: Dimitri Baptiste                                              ##
 ## -----                                                                      ##
-## Copyright (c) 2025 Syndemics Lab at Boston Medical Center                  ##
+## Copyright (c) 2025-2026 Syndemics Lab at Boston Medical Center             ##
 ################################################################################
 
 #' Ensure required packages are installed
@@ -16,13 +16,14 @@
 #' A method that installs packages from CRAN, if they're not yet installed in
 #' the current environment, and loads packages.
 #'
-#' @param packages Character vector of required packages
+#' @param ... Package names as strings
 #' @return A logical vector giving `TRUE` if the package is installed and
 #' available and `FALSE` if there was an issue with installing each of the
 #' specified packages
 #' @examples
-#' ensure_packages(c("dplyr", "here"))
-ensure_packages <- function(packages) {
+#' ensure_packages("dplyr", "here")
+ensure_packages <- function(...) {
+    packages <- c(...)
     return(vapply(
         packages,
         function(package) {
@@ -35,6 +36,6 @@ ensure_packages <- function(packages) {
             library(package, character.only = TRUE, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
             return(require(package, character.only = TRUE))
         },
-        logical(length(packages))
+        logical(1)
     ))
 }

From 0cec1afa19467af3dbac4195c65d0067ca6808d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Baptiste <55843498+ddbaptiste@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:51:42 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] Include changes from stale branch - Add `.editorconfig`,
 remove `R/.gitkeep`

---
 .Rprofile     | 1 +
 .editorconfig | 8 ++++++++
 R/.gitkeep    | 0
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 .editorconfig
 delete mode 100644 R/.gitkeep

diff --git a/.Rprofile b/.Rprofile
index 81b960f..7ca3eb9 100644
--- a/.Rprofile
+++ b/.Rprofile
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 source("renv/activate.R")
+source("R/utils.R")
diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d4aeef6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.editorconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+root = true
+
+[*]
+end_of_line = lf
+indent_style = space
+
+[*.R]
+indent_size = 4
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/R/.gitkeep b/R/.gitkeep
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000

From 623321eb0cb95f8947c11ef2228c85c9ccf0b3cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dimitri Baptiste <55843498+ddbaptiste@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:59:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] Untrack `.editorconfig`

---
 .editorconfig | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .editorconfig

diff --git a/.editorconfig b/.editorconfig
deleted file mode 100644
index d4aeef6..0000000
--- a/.editorconfig
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-root = true
-
-[*]
-end_of_line = lf
-indent_style = space
-
-[*.R]
-indent_size = 4
\ No newline at end of file