Problem
Package Analysis supports several important package ecosystems, but it lacks support for R packages on CRAN. The CRAN ecosystem is small compared to PyPI and npm -- it has about 25,000 packages and several dozen updates per day -- but R packages are widely used in clinical trials, financial risk modeling, government statistics, and other environments handling sensitive data.
Proposed solution
I have developed a working extension of Package Analysis to CRAN. The primary contributions are in sandboxes/dynamicanalysis/Dockerfile and a new sandboxes/dynamicanalysis/analyze-r.R. See my fork here.
Ask
Would a PR for this be welcome? I want to run the analysis at scale (on a random sample of ~100 CRAN packages) and confirm results before opening a PR, but before I do so, I wanted to gauge interest in this extension.
Problem
Package Analysis supports several important package ecosystems, but it lacks support for R packages on CRAN. The CRAN ecosystem is small compared to PyPI and npm -- it has about 25,000 packages and several dozen updates per day -- but R packages are widely used in clinical trials, financial risk modeling, government statistics, and other environments handling sensitive data.
Proposed solution
I have developed a working extension of Package Analysis to CRAN. The primary contributions are in
sandboxes/dynamicanalysis/Dockerfileand a newsandboxes/dynamicanalysis/analyze-r.R. See my fork here.Ask
Would a PR for this be welcome? I want to run the analysis at scale (on a random sample of ~100 CRAN packages) and confirm results before opening a PR, but before I do so, I wanted to gauge interest in this extension.