getsysreqs

Determine system requirements from R packages using the RStudio Package Manager. Query with either a list of packages, or an renv lockfile. If using an renv lockfile, only CRAN packages will be used.

Installation

You can install the development version of sysreqs from Github with:

remotes::install_github("mdneuzerling/getsysreqs")

Example

Determine system dependencies for both plumber and rmarkdown on an Ubuntu 20.04 system:

library(getsysreqs)
get_sysreqs(
  c("plumber", "rmarkdown"),
  distribution = "ubuntu",
  release = "20.04"
)

# [1] "libsodium-dev"        "libcurl4-openssl-dev" "libssl-dev"           "make"                
# [5] "libicu-dev"           "pandoc" 

Alternatively, pass the file path to an renv lockfile, or directory containing renv.lock.

Inspiration

The sysreqs package generates a list of system dependency installation commands from the DESCRIPTION file of an R package. sysreqs uses https://sysreqs.r-hub.io/ rather than the Rstudio Package Manager.

Warning

I whipped this up in a few hours without much care. If you wish to use this in a serious project, please think again.