18  Sustainment and Deployment of Solutions

Keywords

model sustainment, reproduceability, environments, deployment, containers, cloud, ML Ops, CI-CD

18.1 Introduction

18.1.1 Learning Outcomes

• Create strategies for sustaining and deploying R solutions in a changing world.
• Employ coding styles and function documentation to ease code maintenance.
• Use the {renv} package to maintain the set of packages used for a solution.
• Implement Continuous-Integration-Continuous-Development (CI-CD) workflows using GitHub Actions.
• Deploy a solution to a cloud environment.

18.1.2 References:

• Hadley Wickham Keynote Address at the NYR10 Conference R in Production Wickham (2024)
• The Tidyverse Style Guide Wickham (2021)
• {styler} package Muller, Walthert, and Patil (2024)
• {lintr} package Hester et al. (2024)
• {roxygen2} package Wickham et al. (2022)
• {testthat} package Wickham (n.d.), Wickham (2011)
  
• {renv} package Wickham and Ushey (2024)
• GitHub Actions Documentation GitHub (2024)
• Docker Guides Inc (11:50:25 -0700 -0700)
• The Rocker Project
• An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R} Boettiger and Eddelbuettel (2017)
• {paws} Package for Amazon Web Services in R AWS Open Source promotional credits program (n.d.)

18.1.2.1 Other References

• Implementing MLOps in the Enterprise Haviv and Gift (2023)
• R Packages Wickham and Bryan (2023)
• Engineering Production Ready Shiny Apps Fay et al. (2023)

18.2 Context

This section is a work in progress

AWS Open Source promotional credits program. n.d. “Paws: An AWS SDK for R.” Accessed August 19, 2024. https://www.paws-r-sdk.com/.

Boettiger, Carl, and Dirk Eddelbuettel. 2017. “An Introduction to Rocker: Docker Containers for R.” The R Journal 9 (2): 527–36. https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2017/RJ-2017-065/index.html.

Fay, Colin, Sébastien Rochette, Vincent Guyader, and Cervan Girard. 2023. Engineering Production-Grade Shiny Apps. https://engineering-shiny.org/index.html.

GitHub. 2024. “GitHub Actions Documentation.” GitHub Docs. https://docs.github.com/en/actions.

Haviv, Yaron, and Noah Gift. 2023. Implementing ML OPs in the Enterprise. First. O’Reilly Media, Inc. https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/implementing-mlops-in/9781098136574/.

Hester, Jim, Florent Angly, Russ Hyde, Michael Chirico, Ken Ren, Alexander Rosentock, and Indraheet Patil. 2024. “Lintr: A ’Linter’ for R Code.” https://lintr.r-lib.org/.

Inc, Docker. 11:50:25 -0700 -0700. “Docker Guides.” Docker Documentation. https://docs.docker.com/guides/.

Muller, Kirill, Lorenz Walthert, and Indraheet Patil. 2024. “Styler: Non-Invasive Pretty Printing of R Code.” https://styler.r-lib.org/index.html.

Wickham, Hadley. 2011. “Testthat: Get Started with Testing.” The R Journal 3 (1): 5. https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2011-002.

———. 2021. The Tidyverse Style Guide. https://style.tidyverse.org/index.html.

———. 2024. “R in Production.” NY R 10 Conference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQk2-3inViM.

———. n.d. “Unit Testing for R.” Accessed August 19, 2024. https://testthat.r-lib.org/.

Wickham, Hadley, and Jennifer Bryan. 2023. R Packages. O’Reilly Media, Inc.

Wickham, Hadley, Peter Dannenberg, Garbor Csardi, and Manuel Eugster. 2022. Roxygen2: In-Line Documentation for R. https://roxygen2.r-lib.org/index.html.

Wickham, Hadley, and Kevin Ushey. 2024. “Renv: Project Environments.” https://rstudio.github.io/renv/.