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Install R package from Github #2187

Open roaldarbol opened 2 weeks ago

roaldarbol commented 2 weeks ago

Problem description

It would be great to be able to install an R package from Github. I seem to recall that it would need a new parser of the DESCRIPTION file, but that that shouldn't be the most difficult thing in the world (if I remember correctly @wolfv).

wolfv commented 2 weeks ago

We're working on pixi build and this would be possible once we have it. When we have it, we would implement a build backend for R packages and pixi should do everything else automagically :)

It would actually be a pretty cool use case!

roaldarbol commented 2 weeks ago

That sounds great! Do you have any idea about time horizon?

ruben-arts commented 1 week ago

pixi build is under heavy construction. I'm planning to show off an initial version at the end of this month, then we'll probably also start excepting contributor PR's on it. So extending it with a R build backend would then be a next step.