Automation of R code execution, from a project that makes use of renv

[gd047]

I use the way described here to automate the execution of r scripts. However, in a specific project I use renv, because there are specific dependencies that are needed (older packages that do not exist in default r installation).
Can I automate the execution of r scripts from that project, without ruining my default r installation?

[pieterjanvc]

Hi,

If you have specific package versions you like to use, you can set the path to them when loading them in your script:

library(package1, lib.loc="~/lib/package1/v1") 

Hope this helps,
PJ

[gd047]

Thanks. But, if I can't use renv::restore, I guess there is no reason to use renv in the first place.

[nirgrahamuk]

If your scripts are set up as projects, i.e. have their own folder structures. Why wouldn't using renv and restore work unproblematically ?

You would almost certainly benefit from setting a shared renv cache though, for speed/efficiency reasons

[gd047]

Because I don't know how to use renv outside of rstudio.

[pieterjanvc]

Hi,

Would this help?

Run a Script — run

So you have to run a script (or line of command line code) to call the script you like to run in renv from what I understand.

PJ

[gd047]

This is probably exactly what I'm looking for. But why is it not in the reference ?

[nirgrahamuk]

@gd047

But why is it not in the reference ?

probably human oversite. run was previously an un-exported function, that became an exported function in 2019, and it was missed out of the reference documentation.

You could probably raise an issue- Issues · rstudio/renv (github.com)
asking for run to be included in the reference - I suspect this would be a minor edit of the _pkgdown.yml file