Re: [R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-08 Thread Kevin Ushey
It would also be worth looking at the basilisk package: https://github.com/LTLA/basilisk where the approach used there is to instead embed a Conda installation as part of the R package itself. This comes with the benefit that it's now the package author's responsibility to maintain the Conda

Re: [R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-08 Thread Kevin Ushey
On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 10:42 PM Sokol Serguei wrote: > > Thanks for this hint. > > Le 07/01/2020 à 20:47, Kevin Ushey a écrit : > > The newest version of reticulate does something very similar: R > > packages can declare their Python package dependencies in the > > Config/reticulate field of a

Re: [R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-08 Thread Serguei Sokol
Le 08/01/2020 à 08:50, Ivan Krylov a écrit : On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 15:49:45 +0100 Serguei Sokol wrote: Currently, many R packages include TPS as part of them thus bloating their sizes and often duplicating files on a given system.  And even when TPS is not included in an R package but is just

Re: [R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-07 Thread Ivan Krylov
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 15:49:45 +0100 Serguei Sokol wrote: > Currently, many R packages include TPS as part of them thus bloating > their sizes and often duplicating files on a given system.  And even > when TPS is not included in an R package but is just installed on a > system, it is not so

Re: [R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-07 Thread Sokol Serguei
Thanks for this hint. Le 07/01/2020 à 20:47, Kevin Ushey a écrit : The newest version of reticulate does something very similar: R packages can declare their Python package dependencies in the Config/reticulate field of a DESCRIPTION file, and reticulate can read and use those dependencies to

[R-pkg-devel] suggestion: conda for third-party software

2020-01-07 Thread Serguei Sokol
Best wishes for 2020! I would like to suggest a new feature for R package management. Its aim is to enable package developers and end-users to rely on conda ( https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/ ) for managing third-party software (TPS) on major platforms: linux64, win64 and osx64. Currently,