Running your own CRAN

Abstract

Ever looked at the CRAN package repository and thought ‘Wow, I wish I could do something like that but worse’? Well look no further! In this talk I’ll outline how I built a CRAN-like R package repository using a continuous integration platform and the {plumber} package. I’ll discuss the difference between source and binary packages in how they’re stored and handled by a package repository, how I integrated the {pkgdown} package to integrate documentation with the repository and all the mistakes I made along the way.

Speaker

I’m Adam, a Data Scientist, and I’ve used R for around 6 years now. I’ve used R for everything from modelling and machine learning to backend APIs and user interfaces and I’ve written two books on the language. More recently I’ve also dabbled in productionising and containerising R code for larger scale applications.

Slides

Available here: https://arawles.github.io/gran-presentation/slides