Make quickstart launcher, e.g. `make_launcher()`

b-rodrigues / rix

Reproducible development environments for R with Nix

https://b-rodrigues.github.io/rix/

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Make quickstart launcher, e.g. `make_launcher()` #35

Open philipp-baumann opened 10 months ago

philipp-baumann commented 10 months ago

@b-rodrigues as you described your idea on matrix channel :-)

philipp-baumann commented 10 months ago

Idea: script or helper that fires up a favorite IDE with a desired Nixpkgs environment.

philipp-baumann commented 10 months ago

Here is a little wishlist from my side. @b-rodrigues happy to get your feedback and inputs :-)

[ ] Detect the operating system, either 1) it is UNIX, or 2) it is Windows.
[ ] Check if Nixpkgs is installed first. If not, for UNIX, use the Determinate Nix Installer from Determinate Systems directly. If Windows, check if the WSL2 Ubuntu console is available, if not, install it (note to rerun R with admin rights).
[ ] Special Windows hook: quick-jump from the current R terminal path in Windows to corresponding mounted path in WSL2.

philipp-baumann commented 10 months ago

The good thing is that we have {curl} already in our reverse dependency list (currently we import {httr}, {jsonlite}, {sys} and {utils}). This means there is no cost in adding curl (some OS'es do not come with curl by default). That means easier downloads when bootstrapping directly from R.

philipp-baumann commented 3 weeks ago

UNIX, use the Determinate Nix Installer from Determinate Systems directly. If Windows, check if the WSL2 Ubuntu console is ava

just a helper/wrapper via sys::exec_<...>