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 <wewol...@gmail.com> 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 stable, are not on > cran and might dissapear in the near future. It should be possible to > execute the R-script without any changes during the next 3 years. > > > What I did look into is packrat. But if I am correct it pulls the > r-packages from cran so if a package was from somewhere else or isn't > available anymore it will fail. > > what I have also found is R on an USB stick: > http://personal.bgsu.edu/~mrizzo/Rmisc/usbR.htm > > Would this work? > > Or is there anything on the lines of pyinstaller > (http://www.pyinstaller.org/) for R? > > > Thank you > > -- > Witold Eryk Wolski > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
