Re: Deploying with Packrat

[Kevin Ushey]

Hi Joseph,

One way of overriding the packrat library path is to set the
`R_PACKRAT_LIB_DIR` environment variable to the desired library path.
Does this help?

Thanks,
Kevin

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 4:05 PM, Joseph Chisari <joseph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm attempting to deploy a Shiny App to a Chef'd box running Shiny Server.
> I'm trying to use packrat to manage packages much in the same way that I
> would use virtualenv for a python project. The Shiny App is deployed to the
> Shiny Server from a remote git repo. The directory is owned by Chef and so
> packrat does not have write permissions.
>
>
> It seems like I should be able to maintain the packrat.lock file in my
> project directory and then the 'lib' directories in some place where I have
> write permissions (say ~/.virtualenvs) but I have been unable to get that to
> work.
>
> The way I understand it; if I change the path in .Rprofile to
> '~/.virtualenvs/some_project' it will look for packrat.lock there, and not
> the version I am deploying from git.
>
> Is this a good use of packrat? Are there any best practices? Or am I
> overlooking a simpler solution?
>
> Thanks!
>
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