rpymat – creates and manages an isolated Miniconda and Python environment

rpymat is an R package that creates and manages an isolated Miniconda and Python environment for reproducible data-processing pipelines.

It provides tools for installing Python packages, running scripts, working with reticulate, and managing JupyterLab without relying on the system-wide Python installation. The package is designed to offer stable behaviour across architectures, including ARM systems.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Creates an isolated Miniconda and Python environment.
• Supports reproducible R and Python processing pipelines.
• Installs packages from Conda channels or with pip.
• Runs system commands inside the managed Conda environment.
• Installs and configures JupyterLab and related extensions.
• Launches JupyterLab with configurable ports, directories, tokens, and browser behaviour.
• Lists and stops active Jupyter servers.
• Integrates with the reticulate R package.
• Runs Python scripts and makes their results available to R.
• Provides utilities for removing the complete managed environment.
• Offers improved stability on ARM-based systems.

Website: github.com/dipterix/rpymat
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Developer: Zhengjia Wang
License: Apache License 2.0

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