box VS types

Compare box vs types and see what are their differences.

box

Write reusable, composable and modular R code (by klmr)

types

Types for R (by jimhester)
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21 days ago over 7 years ago
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MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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box

Posts with mentions or reviews of box. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-04.
  • Can someone explain how R project are organized and deployed?
    5 projects | /r/rprogramming | 4 Mar 2023
    As for organising code within a project, as mentioned packages really don’t allow this beyond collation order. The best solution in this space is the ‘box’ package which implements a fully-featured module system for R. ‘box’ notably gets used by some folks to implement large-scale Shiny applications; if this is what you’re after, I would recommend the ‘rhino’ framework, which builds upon Siny and ‘box’.
  • Does anyone feel like R is actually vastly worse for dependency/environment management than Python?
    3 projects | /r/datascience | 15 Nov 2022
    I would look into box https://github.com/klmr/box if you haven’t heard of it already
  • "Managing large codebases in R" webinar (Oct. 6, 2022)
    2 projects | /r/rstats | 13 Oct 2022
    Shapeless plug: check out the already mentioned ‘box’, I think it’s strictly superior to ‘import’ (but I’m biased).
  • Restructuring a large R project. Need advice on how to wire up file paths and associated objects.
    2 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 23 Mar 2022
    I think your use-case is best addressed by the ‘targets’ package. But I would also recommend checking out the ‘box’ package for a more general way of structuring R projects in modules which isn’t supported well natively by R (disclaimer: I wrote that package). Writing R code as modules fundamentally side-steps the issue of having to deal with absolute paths. Instead, all code and data are either contained in the module or can be accessed relative to the working directory.
  • How do you organize your code snippets/notes?
    2 projects | /r/rstats | 6 Oct 2021
    Check out ‘box’, it’s designed precisely to solve (most of) your issues. Namely, it allows you to organise your R code files into (nested) modules, which can either be part of one project, or they can be stored centrally, and reused seamlessly across projects. It also allows you to document your code and makes this documentation available just like package documentation.
  • Creating your own R package
    2 projects | /r/rstats | 30 May 2021
    I'll also name drop the Box package, which serves like a middle of the road option between creating packages and sourcing scripts. It allows you to treat scripts (and the functions inside them) like packages without having to go through all the extra steps to build packages. In that way, it's more similar to creating and importing python modules.
  • import functions from a package without loading the package
    3 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Apr 2021
    I don't fully understand what happens when you attach a package, so I can't speak to your question about side-effects. However, if you're looking for an alternative, possibly safer, strategy, you might try the package box.
    3 projects | /r/rstats | 10 Apr 2021
    There is: use the ‘box’ package. It allows this and more. In your specific case, you’d write
  • Reference project for an R 2+2=4 style application coverage, testthat and a build file
    3 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 31 Mar 2021
    That said, I’ve been playing with a framework for command line applications in R (as a ‘box’ module), and I guess you could call the example application “2+2=4” style (it’s a command line calculator, complete with automatically generated option parser etc.).
  • What would you like to see from an R2 / R++ / R#
    3 projects | /r/Rlanguage | 27 Mar 2021
    You can do that with ‘box’, check it out!

types

Posts with mentions or reviews of types. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-13.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing box and types you can also consider the following projects:

renv - renv: Project environments for R.

ggplot2 - An implementation of the Grammar of Graphics in R

rnim - A bridge between R and Nim

tidytable - Tidy interface to 'data.table'

sys - Easily create reusable command line scripts with R

workflowr - Organize your project into a research website

lintr - Static Code Analysis for R

rspm - RStudio Package Manager

rocker - R configurations for Docker

fun - Module for functional programming in R

uktrade - An R package containing convenient functions to load HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics, Regional Trade Statistics, and custom URLs using HMRC's API.

ggplot2-book - ggplot2: elegant graphics for data analysis