Re: [R] packaging an R-application

2015-12-24 Thread peter dalgaard
It sounds like it could be the sort of issue that Docker/Rocker is trying to address. Someone called Dirk might chime in on this. -pd > On 23 Dec 2015, at 22:29 , Witold E Wolski wrote: > > Dear List, > > > What I am seeking advice for is how to best package an R installation > with all the

Re: [R] packaging an R-application

2015-12-23 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 23/12/2015 1:29 PM, Witold E Wolski wrote: Dear List, What I am seeking advice for is how to best package an R installation with all the packages required? Scenario: I need to deliver an R script which will have quite a bit of package dependencies, to packages which are not necessarily stab

Re: [R] packaging an R-application

2015-12-23 Thread MacQueen, Don
This sounds like more of an operating system task than an R task. But within R, you can come close, I would think, by copying all of the packages' directories to the same directory as the script. Then write another script that will install all of the packages. In the future, run that script before

[R] packaging an R-application

2015-12-23 Thread Witold E Wolski
Dear List, What I am seeking advice for is how to best package an R installation with all the packages required? Scenario: I need to deliver an R script which will have quite a bit of package dependencies, to packages which are not necessarily stable, are not on cran and might dissapear in the n