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| author | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2022-04-06 23:07:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2022-04-07 09:23:44 +0200 |
| commit | 2f5e7601eff06ea9f8c8f74682ac976e51ab93b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 316719b832b20b8937cbfefc592f6d3f7873c434 | |
| parent | 864172fd62b72df8ff3982ed129b7a74bd61be7c (diff) | |
Update README.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 20 |
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@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@ -This R package provides a single procedure =guix.install=, which +This R package provides a single procedure `guix.install`, which allows R users to install R packages via Guix right from within their running R session. If the requested R package does not exist in Guix at this time, the package and all its missing dependencies will be imported recursively and the generated package definitions will be written to -=~/.Rguix/packages.scm=. This record of imported packages can be used +`~/.Rguix/packages.scm`. This record of imported packages can be used later to reproduce the environment, and to add the packages in question to a proper Guix channel (or Guix itself). -=guix.install= not only supports installing packages from CRAN, but +`guix.install` not only supports installing packages from CRAN, but also from Bioconductor or even arbitrary git or mercurial -repositories, replacing the need for installation via devtools.
\ No newline at end of file +repositories, replacing the need for installation via devtools. + +# Hacking + +Use [Guix](https://guix.gnu.org) to enter a suitable development +environment and build the package: + +```shell +guix shell +R CMD build . +R CMD check --as-cran guix.install_1.0.0.tar.gz +``` + |