Re: [R-pkg-devel] R force download of specific package versions in DESCRIPTION file

2017-05-31 Thread Thierry Onkelinx
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 N

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R force download of specific package versions in DESCRIPTION file

2017-05-31 Thread Seth Wenchel
You may also want to look at the checkpoint and miniCRAN packages https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=checkpoint https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=miniCRAN I haven't used the checkpoint package before, bu

Re: [R-pkg-devel] R force download of specific package versions in DESCRIPTION file

2017-05-31 Thread Martin Watts
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