Rvcg is an R-package providing methods for manipulations on triangular meshes by using the API of the VCGLIB library.
Within R:
install.packages("Rvcg")
install devtools from within R (Ubuntu/Debian users will have to install libcurl4-gnutls-dev beforehand):
install.packages("devtools")
Install build environment
Run the following command in R:
require(devtools)
install_github("zarquon42b/Rvcg", local=FALSE)
Rvcg has been ported to the python packaging system Conda thanks to @dipterix and can be found here https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/r-rvcg
From an active conda enironment, it can be installed with the command
conda install conda-forge::r-rvcg