Infer source package paths using source references
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enhancement
- Dominant language
- R
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- 409
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- 89
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Description
Today Packrat works with source packages, but only if the source packages' locations are manually specified in the source.packages parameter.
There is a possible way to probe for a package's source location in some instances:
- Load the package
- Iterate over the package namespace environment and look for functions
- Check each function for source references
- If the source reference points to an existing file on disk, walk up the directory structure starting at that file looking for a package root directory (i.e. contains DESCRIPTION, etc.)
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files or tests are identified. Start by locating Packrat's source-package handling and the source.packages parameter, then assess the proposed namespace and source-reference probing flow. Done means source package paths can be inferred from existing source references when a package root is found, while manual paths remain supported.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100