[R] Update dependencies for datascience build

r/datascience/Aptfile

@@ -1 +1,9 @@
+libcurl4-openssl-dev
+libfontconfig1-dev
+libfribidi-dev
 libgdal-dev
+libharfbuzz-dev
+libssl-dev
+libxml2-dev
+unixodbc
+unixodbc-dev

r/datascience/install_packages.R

@@ -1,2 +1,30 @@
 packages <- readLines("/tmp/requirements.R")
-install.packages(packages, repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
+
+# Function to check if a package is installed
+is_package_installed <- function(package) {
+  return(package %in% rownames(installed.packages()))
+}
+
+# Install packages with error handling
+for (pkg in packages) {
+  # Skip if the package has a `#` in front
+  if (substr(pkg, 1, 1) == "#") {
+    next
+  }
+  tryCatch({
+      # Attempt to install the package
+      install.packages(pkg, repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org')
+
+      # Check if installation was successful, otherwise raise error
+      if (!is_package_installed(pkg)) {
+        stop(paste("⛔ Installation of package", pkg, "failed."))
+      } else {
+        message(paste("✅ Package", pkg, "installed successfully."))
+      }
+    },
+    error = function(e) {
+      # Handle errors: print error message
+      stop(paste("🔥 Error installing package", pkg, ":", e$message))
+    }
+  )
+}

r/datascience/requirements.R

@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
+# *** If you add any packages to this file, be sure to test their installation in the dockerfile before the `RUN R -e "source('/tmp/install_packages.R')"` line. ***
+# e.g. `RUN R -e "install.packages('NEW_PACKAGE', repos = 'http://cran.us.r-project.org')"
+# This should make it easier to determine if any other dependencies are required and should result in less time spent waiting for the docker build to (possibly) fail.
 arrow
 caret
 crayon
+# ragg/pkgdown are required for devtools but not installed automatically
+ragg
+remotes
+pkgdown
 devtools
 dplyr
 e1071
@@ -11,13 +18,13 @@ hexbin
 htmltools
 htmlwidgets
 nycflights13
-randomforest
-rcurl
-rgdal
+odbc
+randomForest
+RCurl
+# rgdal (removed Oct 2023: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rgdal/index.html)
 rmarkdown
-rodbc
-rsqlite
+RODBC
+RSQLite
 shiny
 tidymodels
 tidyverse
-unixodbc