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CRAN packages have no description #76999

Open davidak opened 4 years ago

davidak commented 4 years ago

Describe the bug

All rPackages from cran-packages.nix missing a description and longDescription.

https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html?channel=nixos-19.09&query=rPackages

The CRAN website provides a description, but it's sometimes very long.

For example:

fortunes: "A collection of fortunes from the R community." (perfect for description) abc: "Implements several ABC algorithms for performing parameter estimation, model selection, and goodness-of-fit. Cross-validation tools are also available for measuring the accuracy of ABC estimates, and to calculate the misclassification probabilities of different models." (very long, maybe OK for longDescription. maye split by '.' and use the first sentence for description? might be better than nothing)

Perfect would be if they provide a short and long description as structured data.

cc @jabranham

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davidak commented 4 years ago

this is still an issue

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

davidak commented 3 years ago

still an issue

stale[bot] commented 3 years ago

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info

davidak commented 3 years ago

still an issue

jbedo commented 3 years ago

The package index that we use to generate the nix expressions unfortunately lack the title field for the packages. These are available in the package tarball (DESCRIPTION) so we could address this by unpacking the tarballs and pulling out the title. We already fetch the tarballs to compute a sha256 hash so this isn't difficult, though it would be an increase in resource requirements for updating.

davidak commented 3 years ago

The package index that we use to generate the nix expressions unfortunately lack the title field for the packages.

can that be changed?

These are available in the package tarball (DESCRIPTION) so we could address this by unpacking the tarballs

i would say use the best method to solve the problem, but it's not an option to not solve it because it takes too much resources

stale[bot] commented 2 years ago

I marked this as stale due to inactivity. → More info