R-hub dev docs
This page contains notes about how things are done in R-hub. In other words, you are browsing our developer notes.
If you want to use R-hub, refer to the user docs.
R-hub components
The “coming soon” GitHub part is the future R-hub CI (continuous integration).
Other services
Other services built around the package builder include:
- R-hub Docker containers that allow local debugging on Linux
- the possibility to deploy R-hub locally (not yet)
- Continuous integration (not there yet either)
R-hub also includes:
- A database (and API) of system requirements, accessible via an API, used by the package builder and usable by other external tools such as
containerit
andcodemetar
, - A database (and API) of CRAN downloads from the RStudio CRAN mirror, useful to assess packages’ popularity,
- A database (and API) of R versions,
- A database (and API) of CRAN packages, that’s searchable,
- An unofficial mirror of all CRAN packages on GitHub, useful to search for code.