Install R packages before copying repo contents
@@ -291,15 +291,38 @@ class RBuildPack(PythonBuildPack):
return super().get_build_scripts() + scripts
- def get_assemble_scripts(self):
- """
- Return series of build-steps specific to this repository.
- """
- assemble_scripts = super().get_assemble_scripts()
+ def get_preassemble_scripts(self):
+ """Install contents of install.R"""
+ scripts = []
installR_path = self.binder_path("install.R")
if os.path.exists(installR_path):
- assemble_scripts += [("${NB_USER}", "Rscript %s" % installR_path)]
+ packages = []
+ with open(installR_path) as f:
+ for line in f:
+ line = line.strip()
+ # skip commented out lines
+ if line.startswith("#"):
+ continue
+ else:
+ # XXX This needs a better solution for detecting which
+ # XXX kind of string quoting the user used/how to
+ # XXX escape quotes...
+ # using " as quote
+ if '"' in line:
+ packages.append("-e '{}'".format(line))
+ # using ' as quote or no quotes
+ else:
+ packages.append('-e "{}"'.format(line))
+
+ package_expressions = " \\ \n".join(sorted(packages))
+ scripts += [("${NB_USER}", "R --quiet %s" % package_expressions)]
+
+ return super().get_preassemble_scripts() + scripts
+
+ def get_assemble_scripts(self):
+ """Install the repository itself as a R package"""
+ assemble_scripts = super().get_assemble_scripts()
description_R = "DESCRIPTION"
if not self.binder_dir and os.path.exists(description_R):
