vagrant site-library permissions and r::package timeouts

[alexwoolford]

I'm using puppet-r with Vagrant. It was necessary to make a couple of tweaks to get things working:

Firstly, in Ubuntu 14.04, the /usr/local/lib/R/site-library has permissions:

drwxrwsr-x  root staff

Vagrant creates the user vagrant which doesn't belong to the staff group and therefore can't write to the site-library folder. I added the user vagrant to the staff group:

user { 'vagrant':
  groups => ["vagrant", "staff"]
}

Secondly, one of my favorite packages, dplyr, takes a while to build in a gutless VM. This causes timeouts. I extended the timeout period in package.pp by adding the following line to the exec command:

timeout => 600,

I thought I'd share in case someone else encounters the same issues.

[SFerrazLeite]

I did experience the same issue with the timeouts. I forked the project and fixed it by allowing to define the timeout in the r::package class. I also created a pull-request - hoping that the fix will eventually be merged.

[Data-drone]

I tried using r::package{ 'dplyr': dependencies => true, timeout => 600, } but I get invalid parameter timeout? why is this the case?