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No it is not example for rest API. Sorry I misunderstood you. I will add example for plumber with rsuite. Nevertheless the example presents workflow where only scoring should be changed to online from batch.

R is single threaded. The same is with python. We use kubernetes for scaling. But it is not for all applications of course. R can be put into production. Rsuite is one of the solutions that helps with that.

We use R for rest using plumber. It is very similar to flask. What you need is to add load balancer.

Exactly, production and deployment process are very different. In enterprise it is very rigid with production that has no internet connection and the best if you do not install pkgs there (supported by rsuite). But I had a customer who treated dev as prod. :)

Rsuite has supported binary pkgs about a year before rstudio. You have not read docs to the end. Rsuite has been used for enterprise. It works great. And it is open-source. Moreover it brings proper definition of R project which rstudio still is missing.

It's goal is different.

We started with reproducible project definition. Then we implemented rsuite to help manage the project. It includes dependency management which is what renv solve. What is the biggest difference is that our project consists of possibly many pkgs that are local to it. This allows you to create complex solutions. Moreover deployment PKG is zip file and to use it you only need r. No PKG installation on prod.

Check for yourself if our solution works for you. We use it on a daily basis. But reproducibility is not the only thing. The most important was to have a project for R.

To make this discussion better you should tell more about your development and deployment process. This includes definition of the project you use.

It goes deeper. We were lacking definition of R project. Pkgs management is part of project management.