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Bruno Rodrigues (@brodriguesco@fosstodon.org) @brodriguesco
Jul 13
New blog post: Reproducible #DataScience with #NixOS brodrigues.co/blog/2023-07-1… #rstats
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Replying to @brodriguesco
No disrespect to nix, but this is a) a problem we had solved in Debian/Ubuntu a decade ago and b) made easy more recently via #r2u. I just ran docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:jammy \ Rscript -e 'install.packages("xlsx")' and of course it just worked. Try it. #rstats

Jul 17, 2023 · 3:44 AM UTC

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Replying to @eddelbuettel
Hi Dirk, yes I know about r2u and always tell anyone I meet using Ubuntu to use it! However that’s an Ubuntu only solution. The advantage of #Nix is that it works on any operating system. I think that Nix could be quite useful to replace renv+Docker for reproducibility.
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Also, Nix can be used to install older releases of R and packages, by using an older revision. This is not possible with other package managers. For example, this default.nix file here: github.com/b-rodrigues/nix_e… installs R version 4.2.2 because I’m using that specific Nix revision
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