Is there something like requirements.txt for R? [closed]
As per the comments, you might want to look at building a package, and including the requirements in the DESCRIPTION file. If you're talking about putting a .R script "into production", you can put a function at the start to make sure the packages required are installed. Here's something along those lines that I have in my own package, and I can call pkgLoad( <list of packages> )
at the beginning of any script to make sure the packages are installed and loaded. I include a list of my favourite packages, such that a call of pkgLoad()
installs and loads all my usual suspects:
pkgLoad <- function( packages = "favourites" ) { if( length( packages ) == 1L && packages == "favourites" ) { packages <- c( "data.table", "chron", "plyr", "dplyr", "shiny", "shinyjs", "parallel", "devtools", "doMC", "utils", "stats", "microbenchmark", "ggplot2", "readxl", "feather", "googlesheets", "readr", "DT", "knitr", "rmarkdown", "Rcpp" ) } packagecheck <- match( packages, utils::installed.packages()[,1] ) packagestoinstall <- packages[ is.na( packagecheck ) ] if( length( packagestoinstall ) > 0L ) { utils::install.packages( packagestoinstall, repos = "http://cran.csiro.au" ) } else { print( "All requested packages already installed" ) } for( package in packages ) { suppressPackageStartupMessages( library( package, character.only = TRUE, quietly = TRUE ) ) }}
Note I've built my favourite CRAN mirror into the function, so make sure you edit that for your own needs.