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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.