`pak` about rap4all HOT 3 OPEN

Using pak with renv is in the works:

• r-lib/pak#343

On another note, pak can print out the system level dependencies which could be a nice addition to the Docker chapter:

pak::pkg_sysreqs("tidyverse", sysreqs_platform = "ubuntu-22.04")

── Install scripts ───────────────────────── Ubuntu NA ──
apt-get -y update
apt-get -y install libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev \
zlib1g-dev make pandoc libfreetype6-dev libjpeg-dev \
libpng-dev libtiff-dev libicu-dev libfontconfig1-dev \
libfribidi-dev libharfbuzz-dev libxml2-dev

── Packages and their system dependencies ───────────────
curl        – libcurl4-openssl-dev, libssl-dev
data.table  – zlib1g-dev
fs          – make
haven       – make, zlib1g-dev
knitr       – pandoc
openssl     – libssl-dev
ragg        – libfreetype6-dev, libjpeg-dev, libpng-dev, libtiff-dev
reprex      – pandoc
rmarkdown   – pandoc
sass        – make
stringi     – libicu-dev
systemfonts – libfontconfig1-dev, libfreetype6-dev
textshaping – libfreetype6-dev, libfribidi-dev, libharfbuzz-dev
xml2        – libxml2-dev

as I was wondering where you got the below list in the chapter.

For example, here are the Ubuntu dependencies that need to be installed for the installation of the {tidyverse} package to succeed:
libicu-dev
zlib1g-dev
make
libcurl4-openssl-dev
libssl-dev
libfontconfig1-dev
libfreetype6-dev
libfribidi-dev
libharfbuzz-dev
libjpeg-dev
libpng-dev
libtiff-dev
pandoc
libxml2-dev

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Hi @asadow, I got the list of dependencies from here: https://packagemanager.posit.co/client/#/repos/cran/setup?distribution=ubuntu-22.04

I didn’t know that pak was able to list the system level dependencies of R libraries, this is indeed quite interesting. I’ll keep an eye open for pak’s evolution.

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Hi, thanks for the suggestion!
I’m not too familiar with pak, can it work together with renv? Because since we’re installing the packages using renv::restore(), could pak be used by renv to install the historical R packages + the system deps?

Thanks for the support!

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