renovate manager for R?

[officialpatterson]

I've worked with renovate in a Java environment before and found it moderately useful and was wondering if there's a manager for R/cran repositories?

If there isn't one available, how hard is it to create one?

[rarkins]

There's no R support currently. What is needed when adding new support is:

• Add any new datasources required (unless it can reuse existing sources like git/github). i.e. in lib/datasource
• Add a new "manager" in lib/manager

So as a first step, can you write down here what you know about what we'd need to do?

[nielsenmarkus11]

This functionality would be great! I wonder if the easiest way to start with R is to set this up for R package development. The DESCRIPTION file at the package root lists package dependencies and versions with the syntax package.name (>= x.x.x)

Perhaps a refactoring of the utils::old.packages() function can be used to determine which packages have available updates.

datasource: https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib (there are other mirrors available too)

The CRAN repo above would contain packages with the most recent versions released. Essentially the old.packages function above checks the versions of current packages and sees if it is different from the installed version package.

As for the work to create a manager... I'm not entirely familiar with that process.

[github-actions[bot]]

Hi there,

You're asking us to support a new package manager. We need to know some basic information about this package manager first. Please copy/paste the new package manager questionnaire, and fill it out in full.

Once the questionnaire is filled out we'll decide if we want to support this new manager.

Good luck,

The Renovate team

[timnolte]

Was that questionnaire ever filled out? I was incorrectly assuming that Renovate would be supporting R/CRAN packages only to now find that it doesn't. We just took on an R project and I was hoping that Renovate would help us to manage the packages like all of our other projects.

[secustor]

No, it has been never filled out and therefore it never moved to the issue tracker

[timnolte]

OK, I will try to get that filled out.