Elegant way to check for missing packages and install them?

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Yes. If you have your list of packages, compare it to the output from installed.packages()[,"Package"] and install the missing packages. Something like this:

list.of.packages <- c("ggplot2", "Rcpp")
new.packages <- list.of.packages[!(list.of.packages %in% installed.packages()[,"Package"])]
if(length(new.packages)) install.packages(new.packages)

Otherwise:

If you put your code in a package and make them dependencies, then they will automatically be installed when you install your package.

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