Sourcing an R Script from Dropbox
[This article was first published on Data, Evidence, and Policy - Jared Knowles, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Working on my R bootcamp materials and I thought it would be handy to get the bootcamp computers setup by sourcing an R script that will install all necessary non-core packages in it. The problem? How to deploy this script efficiently. A quick method would be to simply source the script from a public Dropbox share. But, as the BioBucket points out, it isn’t that straightforward!
So I created a simple little function called source_dropbox to handle this work. It is hosted as a Gist on GitHub for others to use.
Next up, sourcing a Gist!
To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Data, Evidence, and Policy - Jared Knowles.
R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.