Puppet defined type for installing R libraries.

r.pp

#
# R libraries (on CRAN).
#
define tarski::r::library($lib = $title, $using = undef) {
  Exec {
    path => "/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin"
  }

  $require_base = [
    Package['R'],
    Package['wget']
  ]

  if $using == undef {
    $require_full = $require_base
  } else {
    $require_full = concat($require_base, (any2array($using).map |$u| { Exec[$u] }))
  }

  exec { "${lib}":
    command => "wget http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${lib}.tar.gz; R CMD INSTALL ${lib}.tar.gz; rm ${lib}.tar.gz",
    require => $require_full
  }
}


# Example useage:
tarski::r::library { 'plyr_1.8': }

tarski::r::library { 'stringr_0.6.2': }

tarski::r::library { 'reshape2_1.2.2':
  using => 'stringr_0.6.2'
}

tarski::r::library { 'lubridate_1.3.2':
  using => [
    'plyr_1.8',
    'stringr_0.6.2'
  ]
}

tarski::r::library { 'data.table_1.8.10': }