b-rodrigues
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4 months ago @mmahmoudian thanks, you're right this should not be there! You can run this chunk to generate the right one
maybe put the latest commit as well, generate it an open a PR.
I think I know what happened: the chunk just below is the one that generated the wrong default.nix, so we should change overwrite to FALSE. As for the name, you're not wrong, we'll have to think about it.
Thanks!
This is an interesting project, The name is just a bit of an issue when trying to find it on Github. Considering the existing packages on CRAN, NixR would be my suggestion (a Ctrl+f of "nix" get the user there which is good for visibility, plus it more inline with the CRAN style of naming ;) )
The issue
I thought of giving {rix} and Nix a try and as per suggestion of @b-rodrigues on Fediverse. Reading the README lead me to:
https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/blob/de009f777266a2836da26a5f3e118c7dcf911087/README.md?plain=1#L161-L168
And I thought since I'm on NixOS I give this approach a try. But before blindly running it and also for educational purposes I started reading the
/inst/extdata/default.nixand then this caught my attention:https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/blob/de009f777266a2836da26a5f3e118c7dcf911087/inst/extdata/default.nix#L35-L44
This package is not a dependency of {rix} not it is necessary for the code. I also realized the script also demands installation of
rPackages.dplyr, andquarto, both of which are not necessary for starting an R project:https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/blob/de009f777266a2836da26a5f3e118c7dcf911087/inst/extdata/default.nix#L22
https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/blob/de009f777266a2836da26a5f3e118c7dcf911087/inst/extdata/default.nix#L46
My suggestion for the solution
Move the testing bits to another file and keep this one pretty much lean and clean.
A proposal
If it is acceptable, I can make a PR and kickstart my contribution to this handy project.