VIDEO: https://youtu.be/DBOmAk_UcKM
SLIDES: RPIrates_ReproducibleEnvironments_02Apr2025.pdf
RPI R users are invited to the April 2025 meeting of RPIrates: The RPI R Users Group! Our topic for Weds, 02 Apr (6p, AE217) will be "Create Reproducible R Environments with renv!," led by Dr. John S. Erickson, Director of Research Operations of the Future of Computing Institute (FOCI) at Rensselaer and Chief Instigator of RPIrates.
The renv package helps you create reproducible environments for your R projects, enabling you to make your R projects more isolated, portable and reproducible:
- Isolated: Installing a new or updated package for one project won’t break your other projects, and vice versa. That’s because renv gives each project its own private library.
- Portable: Easily transport your projects from one computer to another, even across different platforms. renv makes it easy to install the packages your project depends on.
- Reproducible: renv records the exact package versions you depend on, and ensures those exact versions are the ones that get installed wherever you go.
RPIrates is a growing community of students, faculty and staff at Rensselaer who gather monthly to support each others' use of the R open source analytics platform. During the Fall and Spring semesters we have monthly in-person RPIrates meetings, usually the first Weds evening of the month. RPIrates also has an email list through which we share information and ask questions: rpi-r-users@cs.lists.rpi.edu
During the Spring 2025 term we will be holding monthly RPIrates meetings at 6p in AE217, featuring great topics, plus pizza, salad and other goodies (arriving at 5:30p).
Contact John Erickson erickj4@rpi.edu for more information or refer to the RPIrates web site