RPackUtils

The installation and maintenance of R packages from public repositories, such as the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) or Bioconductor, is a process made cumbersome by the need to manage package dependencies. Typically, this forces users to download the versions of the package that are currently available and potentially experience a trial-and-error cycle of installing and updating all dependencies. The reproducibility of an R installation, and therefore of the R code itself, is not guaranteed by the use of standard, out-of-the-box tools.

RPackUtils is an R package dependencies manager developed in Python with reproducibility in mind. RPackUtils can manage several public and private repositories (e.g., Artifactory), any existing R environment, or any local file system folder internally as well as install packages from all of them and mirror the main public repositories, CRAN and Bioconductor, to a specific snapshot in time or release.