Dev to prod workflow advice using packrat

[James]

Hello,

New to packrat and trying to figure out how to use it effectively for my workflow.

I am developing an R project on my local machine. I save it, and then commit the code to a git repository. From there, my remote 'production' server pulls the latest version of the code and runs it.

Sometimes however I hit problems because the production server does not have the packages installed which I have installed on my local machine. My production project crashes. I then need to contact our IT department and ask them to install the packages on the production server for me. Obviously this isn't ideal.

Is there a way I can use packrat to help with this workflow?

Thanks, James