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Support DESCRIPTION files for R projects

See original GitHub issue

https://github.com/benmarwick/rrtools/blob/master/DESCRIPTION

These have been mentioned a few times to me as a way that R users specify dependencies. We should try and find out how popular they are and consider supporting htem in addition to install.R.

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Created 5 years ago
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gedankenstueckecommented, Sep 17, 2018

Yep, started #406 for that. Will give it a proper spin tonight or so.

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betatimcommented, Sep 17, 2018

Can you post what the equivalent of pip install -e. is here or even make a PR?

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