Port R code from acteng/netgen here

[robinlovelace-ate]

There's some functions and docs here that I'm sure will be useful to people wanting to run this with R data science background: https://github.com/acteng/netgen

Discussed with @dabreegster already, we're looking for 'loose coupling', with the functions focussing on prepping the data rather than actually calling the tool via CLI.

Assuming we go with it there are some questions: where should the package live (in an r/ directory like odjitter being default I think)? And how can we render the auto-generated R docs (see links here): https://acteng.github.io/netgen/ ?

[robinlovelace-ate]

cc @Robinlovelace for non ATE days.

[dabreegster]

where should the package live (in an r/ directory like odjitter being default I think)? And how can we render the auto-generated R docs

A subdirectory like that is fine, yes. We can auto-generate and serve the R docs alongside the hosted web app by following https://github.com/acteng/netgen/blob/main/.github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml, but putting things in a subdirectory. When the R directory is started here, I can set this up

[Robinlovelace]

Just tried to create a branch linked to this issue but don't have permissions:

gh issue develop 67 --checkout
GraphQL: Robinlovelace does not have the correct permissions to execute `CreateLinkedBranch` (createLinkedBranch)

[robinlovelace-ate]

PR ready for review.

[Robinlovelace]

This is done now (cannot close from this account).

[dabreegster]

I'll set up the R docs on GH pages then close

[dabreegster]

Docs live at https://urban-analytics-technology-platform.github.io/od2net/r/