How to request the addition of pre-installed R packages on the clusters?

[mbaumga]

Today, many R packages are pre-installed on the standard clusters on Databricks. Libraries like "tidyverse", "ggplot2", etc are there. Also the great library "readxl" to load Excel files. But unfortunately, its counterpart "writexl" is not pre-installed. This means I need to install it whenever I run a notebook, as I don't want to install library on my cluster, as only a few notebooks use this library. How can I request libraries like "writexl" to be installed by default? Then please also install "igraph", "htmlwidgets", "htmltools", ... .

[-werners-]

https://docs.databricks.com/resources/ideas.html

No guarantee it will be added though.

[mbaumga]

This is not really an idea, or a new feature.. I just need to figure who decides which R packages are pre-installed on the cluster.

[karthik_p]

@Marcel Baumgartner​ you can install notebook scoped, they are specific to notebook and particular session.

you can install by using %pip install <library name that you are going to install>

[mbaumga]

I know, but that's what I want to avoid, as it always takes a lot of time.

[Anonymous]

Hi @Marcel Baumgartner​ 

We haven't heard from you since the last response from @Werner Stinckens​ , and @karthik p​ ​, and I was checking back to see if her suggestions helped you.

Or else, If you have any solution, please share it with the community, as it can be helpful to others. 

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[mbaumga1]

I still don't have a satisfying answer. Any other suggestions from the community?

[wicckkjoe]

I just need to figure who decides which R packages are pre-installed on the cluster.