Exclude directories from packrat::init dependency search

[Alex Gutteridge]

I have some R scripts within the data/ subdirectory of my project that I wish to run packrat::init on. These scripts *are* data so I do not want them searched by packrat for dependencies when I run packrat::init, but there doesn't seem to be an option to exclude files/directories in this way. Am I missing something obvious or is there another workaround?

[Kevin Ushey]

Hi Alex,

We currently don't have a way of excluding certain files / directories in the dependency search. Perhaps this could be controlled with a project option; a vector of directories or files to ignore could be specified?

I'm not quite sure what the name would be, but something like:

    packrat::opts$dependencies.excluded.files = c(<files-and-directories-to-exclude>)

would probably work here. Any thoughts?

Kevin

On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Alex Gutteridge <alexgut...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have some R scripts within the data/ subdirectory of my project that I wish to run packrat::init on. These scripts *are* data so I do not want them searched by packrat for dependencies when I run packrat::init, but there doesn't seem to be an option to exclude files/directories in this way. Am I missing something obvious or is there another workaround?

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[Alex Gutteridge]

Yes that looks like the solution I was hoping to find! I guess I was hoping there would be some .gitignore (https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore) like syntax. (.packratignore?).