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+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
+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
+also from Bioconductor or even arbitrary git or mercurial
+repositories, replacing the need for installation via devtools.
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