Whitelist/blacklist paths for R package search
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Description
Thanks for the packrat! Super useful.
I'm working on a project that has some scripts that refer to R packages I use rarely. I'm using packrat for package management on a decent number of machines and most of these machines do not require the installation of these rarely-used R packages. Is there a good way to whitelist / blacklist paths that the snapshot and init commands search so that they do not automatically search through all the R files and installing all relevant files? I know there is functionality around ignoring libraries, but I'd rather just whitelist / blacklist paths.
Thank you!
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Research direction
Begin with the snapshot and init command entry points and trace how they search R files and libraries. Review the existing library-ignore functionality, then define how path whitelists and blacklists should affect both commands; done means excluded paths are not scanned or installed while included paths still are.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- r
- Domain
- tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100