Dependency management in R

Question

Does R have a dependency management tool to facilitate project-specific dependencies? I\'m looking for something akin to Java\'s maven, Ruby\'s bundler, Python\'s virtualenv, No

Answer 1

The packrat package is precisely meant to achieve the following:

install any required packages into a project-specific library without affecting the global R installation

It allows installing different versions of the same packages in different project-local package libraries.

I am adding this answer even though this question is 5 years old, because this solution apparently didn't exist yet at the time the question was asked (as far as I can tell, packrat first appeared on CRAN in 2014).

Update (November 2019)

The new R package renv replaced packrat.