R Packagedev Mcp

A local MCP server that lets an AI assistant work on R package development using usethis, devtools, renv and testthat.

What you can do

Scaffold and manage R package projects with usethis and devtools workflows, such as creating packages and adding components or dependencies. Support development tasks like loading, documenting, checking and building packages through devtools. Manage project dependencies and reproducible environments with renv. Run and work with package tests through testthat. No individual tools are listed in the supplied material, so exact operations are not documented.

When to use it

Useful when you are building or maintaining an R package and want an assistant to help with scaffolding, dependency management, checks and tests without leaving the conversation. Less relevant if you work outside R or only need general R scripting rather than package development.

Requirements

Runs as a local process over stdio, installed from the npm package r-packagedev-mcp, so Node.js and npm are needed on the machine. Desktop-only; no web execution. No authentication, environment variables or headers are declared. The R toolchain and the usethis, devtools, renv and testthat packages are implied by the described workflows.