[R] Package renv and Rscript

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Ben,

I think that you first need to go to your project and then start Rscript
from that location. renv() needs to pick up the .Renviron file located at
the root of your project.

Best regards,

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
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Op di 14 apr. 2020 om 19:53 schreef Ben Tupper <btupper using bigelow.org>:

> Whoops!  The silly "send" button jumped out and grabbed my cursor before I
> was ready for it.  Second try...
>
> I am using renv (https://rstudio.github.io/renv/) to maintain a project
> environment in a directory (ala '/path/to/project').
>
> Within the project I have a number of scripts that I call with one argument
> using...
>
> $ Rscript /path/to/script.R /path/to/config_file
>
> I can kick this off successfully with the renv environment when I manually
> start Rscript within the project directory. Now I would like to be able to
> hand the script kick-off to either crontab or the PBS queueing system.  But
> I haven't figured out how to get the instance of R that is kicked off to do
> so using the renv project space (i.e. using the R libraries as established
> in the project.)
>
> At first I thought I would call a simple wrapper script such that accepted
> two arguments '/path/to/script.R' and '/path/to/config_file'. I planned to
> use ...
>
> ###
> args <- commandArgs(trailingOnly = TRUE)
> path_to_script <- args[1]
> path_to_config <- args[2]
> renv::run(path_to_script,
>           project = '/path/to/project')
> ###
>
> Unfortunately renv::run() doesn't provide a vehicle for passing other
> script arguments along.  So, in this case, there's no way to communicate
> the configuration file to the script.
>
> Is there a recommended way to call Rscript such that the renv environment
> gets picked up?
>
> Thanks!
> Ben
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 1:41 PM Ben Tupper <btupper using bigelow.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using renv (https://rstudio.github.io/renv/) to maintain a project
> > environment in a directory (ala /path/to/project)
> >
> >
> > Within the project I have a number of scripts that I call using...
> >
> > $ Rscript /path/to/script.R /path/to/config_file
> >
> > I can kick this off successfully with the renv environment when I
> manually
> > start Rscript within the project directory. Now I would like to be able
> to
> > hand the script kick off to either crontab or the PBS queueing system.
> >
> > At first I thought I would actually call a wrapper script such that
> > accepted two arguments '/path/to/script.R' and '/path/to/config_file'. I
> > planned to use
> >
> > renv::run('/path/to/script.R',
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ben Tupper
> > Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
> > East Boothbay, Maine
> > http://www.bigelow.org/
> > https://eco.bigelow.org
> >
> >
>
> --
> Ben Tupper
> Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science
> East Boothbay, Maine
> http://www.bigelow.org/
> https://eco.bigelow.org
>
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