I am on CentOS. Whern I put the following in my Puppet file:

class { 'r': }
r::package { 'ggplot2': }
r::package { 'gcookbook': }

I get the following error:

Error: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install r-base' returned 1: Error: Nothing to do
Error: /Stage[main]/R/Package[r-base]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Execution of '/usr/bin/yum -d 0 -e 0 -y install r-base' returned 1: Error: Nothing to do

It seems to be indicating that R is already installed. However, it's supposed to be
a Puppet module, so it should be cool with that if true.

Can you help?

Ross

I'm trying to install a local package:

r::package { '${ore_package_dir}/ORE_1.4.1_R_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz': repo => null }

as the script expects repo to be a string this doesn't seem possible.

I'm using puppet-r with Vagrant. It was necessary to make a couple of tweaks to get things working:

Firstly, in Ubuntu 14.04, the /usr/local/lib/R/site-library has permissions:

drwxrwsr-x  root staff

Vagrant creates the user vagrant which doesn't belong to the staff group and therefore can't write to the site-library folder. I added the user vagrant to the staff group:

user { 'vagrant':
  groups => ["vagrant", "staff"]
}

Secondly, one of my favorite packages, dplyr, takes a while to build in a gutless VM. This causes timeouts. I extended the timeout period in package.pp by adding the following line to the exec command:

timeout => 600,

I thought I'd share in case someone else encounters the same issues.

At every package run, I'm seeing my packages get reinstalled:

Info: Applying configuration version '1401905339'
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[rCharts]/Exec[install_r_package_rCharts]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[shiny]/Exec[install_r_package_shiny]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[ggplot2]/Exec[install_r_package_ggplot2]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[ROCR]/Exec[install_r_package_ROCR]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[mapproj]/Exec[install_r_package_mapproj]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: /Stage[main]/Main/Node[rshiny2.mydomain.com]/R::Package[leaflet]/Exec[install_r_package_leaflet]/returns: executed successfully
Notice: Finished catalog run in 21.41 seconds

I'd like to use this module but there are no releases so puppet-librarian run in Boxen can't download it. Could you please create an initial release?