liftr
Containerize R Markdown Documents
Persistent reproducible reporting by containerization of R Markdown documents.
liftr extends the R Markdown metadata format, helps you generate Dockerfile for rendering documents in Docker containers. Users can also include and run pre-defined Rabix tools/workflows, then use Rabix output in their dockerized documents.
Installation
To download and install liftr from CRAN:
install.packages("liftr")
Or, you can try the development version on GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")devtools::install_github("road2stat/liftr")
To load the package in R, simply use
library("liftr")
and you are all set. See the package vignette (can also be opened with vignette("liftr-intro") in R) for a quick-start guide.
News
CHANGES IN liftr VERSION 0.4 (2016-01-18)
NEW FEATURES
- Added four RStudio addins as shortcuts to create, dockerize, and render R Markdown documents.
CHANGES IN liftr VERSION 0.3 (2015-10-10)
NEW FEATURES
- Support specifying CRAN package version precisely.
IMPROVEMENTS
- Modified examples in documentation to comply with the lastest CRAN Repository Policy.
- Installing packages with https.
CHANGES IN liftr VERSION 0.2 (2015-07-30)
BUG FIXES
- Correctly rendered the vignette with Pandoc 1.15.0.6.
NEW FEATURES
- Added new R Markdown header option
pandocto control Pandoc installation. Automatically set this tofalseforrocker/rstudioandbioconductor/...images. This solves issue #12.
CHANGES IN liftr VERSION 0.1 (2015-07-10)
NEW FEATURES
- Initial version of liftr. This version implemented two functions
lift()anddrender(). They provide basic support for dockerizing R Markdown documents, with support for running Rabix workflows/tools before rendering R Markdown documents in Docker containers.