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rPackages: IRKernel #25211

Closed jbaum98 closed 7 years ago

jbaum98 commented 7 years ago

Issue description

IRKernel was removed in commit f4595fa55533. Why was this, and will it be added back?

Mic92 commented 7 years ago

why it was removed (quote from the commit message):

r-modules: drop broken irkernel package set

We can no longer update that package set since, apparently, it has moved
to a different packaging scheme.

Will it be back? It will be added back, if someone fix the expression and opens a pull request.

jbaum98 commented 7 years ago

What does it mean that it has moved to a different packaging scheme? I'd be up to try and fix it but I don't understand what's wrong.

FRidh commented 7 years ago

perhaps @peti can explain

peti commented 7 years ago

IRKernel is distributed in a way that differs from other CRAN repositories. I don't know the details myself, I just know that the generate-r-packages.R tool we use to generate all other package sets (and which generated the IRKernel set in the past) no longer works. If someone else figures out how to remedy that issue, we'll be more than happy to merge such a PR. Personally, I am not going to work on that subject, though.

krey commented 6 years ago

For anyone else running into this issue, JuniperKernel is now in CRAN (and hence also in nixpkgs), and works just as well as IRKernel