I have a R script that I call from python using rpy2. It uses dplyr, doBy, and ggplot2. The script has install.packages commands for these 3 packages. Even thought the packages are already installed it still downloads, builds, and installs them, which is very time consuming. Is there a way to have it only do the install if the package is not already installed?
Also, I run in a docker container, so after the container is instantiated the packages are not there the first time the script runs. Is there a way to pre load the packages, in which case I would not need the install.packages commands for these packages and my above question would become moot. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.