Ansible snippet for installing R with useful packages

R-with-packages.yaml

---
  - name: R | Install RStudio dependency libjpeg62
    apt:
      name: libjpeg62
  - name: R |Install RStudio
    shell: curl https://download1.rstudio.org/rstudio-1.0.136-amd64.deb >> ~/Downloads/rstudio.deb && dpkg -i ~/Downloads/rstudio.deb
  - name: R | Prepare local library
    shell: mkdir -p ~/R/library
  - name: R | Prepare Renviron
    shell: echo "R_LIBS_USER='~/R/library/'" > ~/.Renviron
  - name: R |Install base R packages
    shell: Rscript -e 'install.packages("{{ item }}", repos="http://cran.r-project.org")'
    with_items:
      - dplyr
      - tidyr
      - stringr
      - lubridate
      - dygraphs
      - ggplot2
      - zoo
      - data.table
      - jsonlite
      - httr
      - devtools
      - testthat
      - roxygen2
      - shiny