beRi

beRi "beri environments for R installations" is an R environment, R installation, and R package management system for R

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Are you a bioinformatician who desires to manage R environments, install R, and install R packages using the command-line? Help develop beRi!

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beRi “beri environments for R installations” is an R environment, R installation, and R package management system for R.

The project was initially conceptualized by Robert Gilmore. Gilmore proposed the project to hackseq18 where it was developed over 3 days by a great team of developers. It ultimately went on to win hackseq18.


What is beRi?

beRi is a suite of Python packages composed of the following components: (1) renv, a virtual environment manager for R; rinse, an R installation and R version manager; and (3) rut, an R utility tool for installing packages, managing native R configuration files, and setting up local CRAN-like repositories. These packages will be developed in separate repositories as standalone command-line interfaces (CLIs). beRi will also be developed in a separate repository but will depend on the other three packages.

Why beRi?

View our isc proposal to the R Consortium for beRi and learn more about why beRi is needed and how we plan to integrate it.

Dependencies

hackseq18 team members

References

In order to create something valuable to the R community including RStudio and rOpenSci, it is critical that we develop something that has credibility and creates reproducible environments. Below are some useful links and packages that have acted as a guide for helping to create this package: