Possibilities to publish a script tool as a plugin

[wdkang]

Hello,

I am relatively new to the idea of developing add-ins/plugins. I am wondering if it is possible to package a R script or a group of R scripts and publish it as a plugin that a user can install without having to worry about the scripts and where to place them?

[Jan Caha]

It might be possible, but i dont think it is actually easy to set up. You would need two main steps to make it work:

• make sure that the Processing R plugin is installed (i am not 100% sure but i think that there might be field for plugin dependency in metadata.txt) + it needs to be correctly set up (but that is beyond your control)
• add folder with your scripts to Processing R settings of scripts folders (that should be fairly easy)

What I personally do is use QGIS Resource Sharing plugin. With that you can set up github repository and put your Python tools, R scripts and other stuff there and simply add it as resource in the plugin. Feel free to look at my repo with scripts to take a look at the set up.