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Is there a way to use a package designed for Rstudio in R CLI?

Someone wrote a package (we'll call it 'Thing') that relies heavily on Rstudio to work, including requiring the rstudioapi library. It has an authentication routine that relies on the rstudioapi::askForPassword("Enter your pw") function.

If I run the setup routine, it throws this sort of error:

> setup_thing()
Thanks for downloading Thing, the custom R package for things.
Loading required package: rstudioapi
Error: RStudio not running

I am trying to avoid re-writing the entire library; Is there a way to install and set up the package in RStudio, but use its configured instance from R CLI?

Solution

  • I think the answer is unfortunately no. But there might be a work around. Have you investigated cronR? https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/cronR/README.html

    You could potentially schedule the jobs within Rstudio itself.