examples/README.md

In Mullefa/locallib: Project isolation for R

examples

The scripts in this sub-directories drat/ and without-drat/ demonstrate the typical usage patterns that will occur when using locallib with drat and without drat respectively.

1. init.R: creates a local library and installs packages into it using drat_install() or install.packages() respectively; and

2. recreate.R: recreates the local library using thaw()

The the sub-directory non-CRAN/ gives an example of how local library might be used with packages that need to be installed from github. This is not ideal - see here for more information - but sometimes it can not be avoided.

As an example, at work we wanted to use the packages DT and loggr in a shiny application, but these are not yet released on CRAN. To solve this issue, we included a setup.R file in the root of the shiny application, and executed this with Rscript after copying the code to the server.

When these packages are released on CRAN, we will move to proper versioning.

Mullefa/locallib documentation built on May 7, 2019, 5:12 p.m.