rang
🐶 (Re)constructing R computational environments (by gesistsa)
groundhog
Reproducible R Scripts Via Date Controlled Installing & Loading of CRAN & Git Packages (by CredibilityLab)
| rang | groundhog | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 69 | 76 | |
| - | - | |
| 8.3 | 8.4 | |
| 5 months ago | about 2 months ago | |
| R | R | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rang
Posts with mentions or reviews of rang.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
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I’ve ran every bundled example from R 0.6.0 up to R 4.2.2 on R 4.2.2, and most examples still run
You’re right, but you might need to at least be able to install the R version that was current at the time, because sometimes there are changes in base R as well. And installing an old version of R can be tricky, especially on Linux. But for these purposes, you could check out the newly released {rang} package: it makes it easy to build a Docker image with the right version of R and packages to run an older project: https://github.com/chainsawriot/rang
groundhog
Posts with mentions or reviews of groundhog.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.
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Best way to maintain old R script - renv? docker?
Try the groundhog package
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Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research
Is it not on GitHub at https://github.com/CredibilityLab/groundhog ?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rang and groundhog you can also consider the following projects:
renv - renv: Project environments for R.
rmarkdown - Dynamic Documents for R
huxtable - An R package to create styled tables in multiple output formats, with a friendly, modern interface.
targets-tutorial - Short course on the targets R package
devcontainers-rstudio - Zero-setup R workshops with GitHub Codespaces
bruceR - 📦 BRoadly Useful Convenient and Efficient R functions that BRing Users Concise and Elegant R data analyses.