specphil, 21 days ago

@Lluis_Revilla 1. & 2. from nixpkgs, which is PR evaluated by humans and autmated by hydra https://hydra.nixos.org/eval/1805389 . cached but it compiles without having to do install.packages. Covers almost all of CRAN, Bioconductor, Bioconductor Experiment and Bioconductor Annotation packages.

Lluis_Revilla, 21 days ago

@specphil So basically 2 as 2 includes 1.
I don't know much about Nixpkgs. Does it accept R packages outside those two repositories?

specphil, 20 days ago

@Lluis_Revilla there are various ways to extend, like building packages from remote sources like GitHub. For an easy setup, you can use our {rix} package, e.g. here are some vignettes on topics like remote dependencies https://b-rodrigues.github.io/rix/articles/z-advanced-topic-handling-packages-with-remote-dependencies.html feedback is appreciated as we are currently addressing feedback from ROpenSci cc @brodriguesco

Lluis_Revilla, 20 days ago

@specphil I might provide some feedback, just the first paragraph lead me to two comments...
You can have a package on CRAN to depend on one that is not there or Bioconductor via Additional_repositories, it is used by several packages (I don't remember if 20 or 200).

But maybe it is me that I started with the z vignette and not the a (while I read @brodriguesco comments and some posts about Nix there is a lot to learn with it).

brodriguesco, 19 days ago

@Lluis_Revilla @specphil Hi Lluis, feedback is more than welcome, don’t hesitate open issues/PRs :D