webrcli

[EXPERIMENTAL] Do not use

cli tools for building node project with webr inside

Install

npm install -g webrcli

Get version

webrcli --version

Init a project

• Initiate and configure a project:

webrcli init ./mywebrapp

Command line tools

• Download a webR compiled package and its dependencies:

webrcli install cowsay

• Read a DESCRIPTION file and build the webR package library

webrcli installFromDesc $(pwd)/rfuns/DESCRIPTION

Working example

cd /tmp
webrcli init cowsaywebr
cd cowsaywebr
webrcli install cowsay

Modify the index.js with this line juste before the end of the function

await globalThis.webR.evalR('cowsay::say("Hello from R!")');

Then run

node index.js