Removing renv

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -19,5 +19,4 @@ jobs:
           with:
             r-version: 'release'
             use-public-rspm: true
-        # - uses: r-lib/actions/setup-renv@v2
         - uses: pre-commit/[email protected]

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ repos:
     rev: v5.0.0
     hooks:
     - id: trailing-whitespace
-      exclude: renv/activate.R
     - id: end-of-file-fixer
     - id: check-yaml
     - id: check-added-large-files

.vscode/settings.json

@@ -2,10 +2,6 @@
     "r.alwaysUseActiveTerminal": true,
     "r.bracketedPaste": true,
     "r.rpath.mac": "/opt/homebrew/bin/R",
-    "r.useRenvLibPath": true,
     "r.workspaceViewer.clearPrompt": false,
     "r.rterm.mac": "radian",
-    "r.libPaths": [
-        "/Users/dorme/Research/Virtual_Rainforest/ve_data_science/renv/library/macos/R-4.4/aarch64-apple-darwin23.6.0 "
-    ]
 }

README.md

@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@ As a brief overview, this involves setting up the following tools:
   tools.
 * **Poetry**. This is a Python package manager that we use to manage a shared set of
   Python packages used across the project.
-* **R**. We will be using R extensively for analysis and data visualisation.
-* **renv**. This is an R package manager that, like `poetry`, is being used to manage
-  the shared set of R packages used across the project.
+* **R**. We will be using R extensively for analysis and data visualisation. At the
+  moment, we are managing package use and versioning with a simple list of packages.
+  This is currently very light touch and we may use something stricter in the future.
 * **pre-commit**. This is a QA tool - we have a set of configured checks that run
   whenever you try and `git commit` some changes to the repo. If the changes fail any of
   the checks, then you will have to fix them and try again. Sometimes, the QA checks can

r_requirements.R

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+# This file is used to record R packages used by the project.
+#
+# We did look at using `renv` to manage this automatically but it added a layer of
+# complexity and unexpected issues and workflow problems and so we have dropped it for
+# now.
+
+# This is required for R support in VSCode
+library(languageserver)
+
+# This is required to use R with Jupyter
+library(IRkernel)