When writing guides and documentation, I always try to write what I would have liked to have read, so here is a guide on how to contribute to #Nix from the perspective of an #RStats user:
on May 16, 2024, from 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm CEST I'm giving a 2 hour online workshop on reproducibility with #Nix for #RStats users organized by the DIPF (Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education)
@brodriguesco I once compiled RStudio server on my smartphone (chroot environment in Termux). Didn't get it to work, but some months later I realized I should have compiled R with some additional flag
@andrew Hi Andrew, do I remember correctly that you wrote a blog post on how to start a digital ocean droplet to run intense computations and then destroy that droplet all from R?
@brodriguesco looks like the latest has a dependency on R4.4.0 so the older one is still the one utilised by earlier R versions so being kept available. Same thing with Matrix. Things are a little tricky with the recommended packages. There were also a few wrinkles over the last couple of days so possible this/you got caught up in those as well (see Simon’s post at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2024-April/083383.html).
@brodriguesco It is actually a good thing. This way old metadata that refers to the older version of the package still works. They would ideally keep the older files around for a couple of days.