rig
The R Installation Manager (by r-lib)
devcontainers-rstudio
Zero-setup R workshops with GitHub Codespaces (by revodavid)
| rig | devcontainers-rstudio | |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 2 | |
| 550 | 113 | |
| 8.0% | - | |
| 8.9 | 4.7 | |
| about 1 month ago | 8 months ago | |
| Rust | Jupyter Notebook | |
| MIT License | MIT License |
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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.
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.
rig
Posts with mentions or reviews of rig.
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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{macrtools} R package: Setup the R compilation toolchain for both Intel-based and Arm-based macs!
This looks like solid work but I am not sure what the use-case for this is. In particular, for end users of R on macOS, why would I use this over the official distribution bundle or rig?
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Best way to maintain old R script - renv? docker?
With rig (https://github.com/r-lib/rig) and renv you will be able to have a reproducible environment with any version of R.
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Installing R 4.2 on MBP M1 Pro
I recommend using rig to install R, my experience with it is very positive and it makes it easy to manage side-by-side installations of multiple versions of R.
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RStudio not using the most up to date R
I’ve never tried using ‘installr’ but I recommend you give ‘rig’ a try instead. It’s working incredibly well in my experience, and I trust the expertise of its maintainer.
devcontainers-rstudio
Posts with mentions or reviews of devcontainers-rstudio.
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 laptop to use for R stats
I got a Chrome book for £200 and use either Codespaces or Gitpod. Then there's money spare for a nice monitor. Take a look at https://github.com/revodavid/devcontainers-rstudio to see how it's done.
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Best way to maintain old R script - renv? docker?
More info on how to set that up here, with an example of .devcontainer + Dockerfile that sets up a basic Data Science environment (with R and a few packages).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rig and devcontainers-rstudio you can also consider the following projects:
groundhog - Reproducible R Scripts Via Date Controlled Installing & Loading of CRAN & Git Packages
Poetry - Python packaging and dependency management made easy
roo - A package and environment manager for R