There's this amazing R package called lockbox, that handles dependency management for you in a hassle-free way. This package is a complete rewrite of lockbox, with additional tooling that allows for introspection into the dependency tree.
This package is still under development and does not work yet!
This package is not available on CRAN. To install this package, use devtools:
if (!require(devtools)) { install.packages("devtools") }
devtools::install_github("abelcastilloavant/Rquirements")To use Rquirements, you first want to write a reqsfile. This will contain a list of all of the R packages you need in your R session, along with versions and additional details needed to download and install the package and its dependencies.
(TODO: add examples of reqfile entries)
The main function in the package is load_requirements, which takes your reqfile and installs all
packages listed there, along with its dependencies.
To do this, the first thing load_requirements does is take your reqfile and write a lockfile. In
analogy with Gemfiles in Ruby, the reqfile is a list of packages that you need, and the lockfile
is the full list of packages needed to satisfy all dependencies of all packages in the reqfile,
along with those listed in the reqfile, topologically sorted by dependency.
(lockbox package users: Rquirements' "reqfile" is lockbox's "lockfile")
(Rubyists: Rquirements' "reqfile" is Ruby's "Gemfile", Rquirements' "lockfile" is Ruby's "Gemfile.lock")
(TODO: add more details as they are developed)
This project is licensed under the MIT License:
Copyright (c) 2018 Abel Castillo
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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This project draws heavily on ideas from lockbox, thanks to Robert Krzyzanowski and Dave Boren for their work on that package.