Setting up a Binder for r5r?

[HTenkanen]

Hi guys!

We have setup a Binder for r5py which allows anyone to run and test the tool from their browser with a click of a button using JupyterLab as interface (p.s. the tutorial is still early draft so will be updated):

I know that it's possible to do the same for R as well (running the vignettes in browser), and was wondering whether you'd be interested in such? I've been playing around with these setups quite a bit and could see what I can do. Basically, this would require adding some configuration files to the repo, but not much more (e.g. the .rmd files should work just as they are).

[rafapereirabr]

Nice, @HTenkanen. This like a great tool to demonstrate the package, so people can have a flavor of r5r and r5py without having to install them locally. Can we specify whether it would run the stable version on CRAN or the dev version from github ?

[HTenkanen]

Yep, easy testing is indeed the point 👍🏻

I believe both should be possible, ie we can configure the environment to use CRAN or github-dev if we want. This being said, I would go with CRAN to have a stable installation.

[rafapereirabr]

Hi @HTenkanen. Since you are already familiar with setting Binder, please go ahead a create one for r5r. This would be much appreciated!

[HTenkanen]

@rafapereirabr Sure, will try to get this done this week. Did already some reading about the topic.