A toolbox to work with R projects on Renku

Renku-r-tools is a small python package that provides a CLI to setup R projects on Renku.

Features:

Link the packrat libraries of a R project to another location. This is particularly useful when packrat libraries are located on the docker image.

Installation

The latest release is available on PyPI and can be installed using pip:

$ pip install renku-r-tools

Install and execute renku-r-tools in an isolated environment using pipx.

Install pipx and make sure that the $PATH is correctly configured.

$ python3 -m pip install --user pipx
$ pipx ensurepath

Once pipx is installed use following command to install renku-r-tools.

$ pipx install renku-r-tools
$ which renku-r-tools
~/.local/bin/renku-r-tools

The latest documentation is available on https://readthedocs.org.