Dear Martin, We use Docker to create an image with R and specific versions of the required packages. You can find our docker image and the source code at https://hub.docker.com/r/inbobmk/rstable/
Best regards, ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Kliniekstraat 25 1070 Anderlecht Belgium To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey 2017-05-31 11:18 GMT+02:00 Martin Watts <martinleewa...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Thanks for your reply, I've taken a look at packrat and it looks > interesting but I don't think it's quite what I want. Packrat works on the > assumption that the R session is run from the project directory, which > won't necessarily be true in our case since, for example, we interface with > some of our R code from python and our packages reference each other. > > Our deployment process at the moment is to just install.packages our > packages to get all the required dependencies. This work well so I'd like > to keep to this structure but I'm surprised that the DESCRIPTION file > supports the == syntax if there is no way to enforce it at install? > > My alternative would be to write my own script that parses our DESCRIPTION > files, pulls out the required versions and uses some code like this ( > https://gist.github.com/viking/1503736) to install the external packages > manually first before installing our packages, but this seems like it would > be a lot of work. > > Thanks, > Martin > > On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 8:52 AM, Facundo Muñoz <famu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I think Packrat [1] might help: > > > > - Isolated: ... each project its own private package library. > > - Reproducible: ... exact versions are the ones that get installed ... > > > > ƒacu.- > > > > [1] https://rstudio.github.io/packrat/ > > > > > > On 05/18/2017 04:34 PM, Martin Watts wrote: > > > I have created a package (which I host on a local server) that I have > set > > > up to depend on exact versions of other packages, i.e my DESCRIPTION > file > > > looks like this: > > > > > > Package: myPackage > > > Depends: > > > R (>= 3.2.5) > > > Imports: > > > dplyr (== 0.5.0), > > > lazyeval (== 0.2.0), > > > lubridate (== 1.6.0), > > > magrittr (== 1.5), > > > reshape2 (== 1.4.2) > > > > > > > > > My expectation is that when I run install.packages('myPackage') that > each > > > of these specific dependency versions will be installed, but this is > not > > > the case. It looks like if a dependent package is not present at all > then > > > it is installed to the correct version, but when it is present at a > LATER > > > version it is not rolled-back to the desired version. > > > > > > Is there a way that we can force all requested versions of these > packages > > > to be installed? We would like this behaviour as we'd like a way to > > > guarantee that all R environments are exactly the same when running > this > > > code. > > > > > > Note that I've been testing using devtools::install, but I assume that > > this > > > mirrors the behaviour of install.packages. > > > Also posted on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/ > questions/44028355/r-force- > > > download-of-specific-package-versions-in-description-file > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Martin > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > > > ______________________________________________ > > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
