It looks like the R packages in https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/development/r-modules haven't been updated in ~4 months. There have been some large releases since then. Can someone please update them?
Apologies if I misunderstood something. I'm just getting started with nix.
jabranham
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Can you give me a list of the most important upgrades and how to test them?
pstn
on 26 Oct 2018
There's something like 13,000 packages on CRAN so providing a full list of "important" upgrades is hard. Nix says that it provides all CRAN packages so I assumed there was a script somewhere (here?) to update them.
You can test all R packages by doing:
R CMD check <package-name>.tar.gz
It looks like @peti is the one that is responsible to updating the snapshot of R package see commit https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/commit/49c649d57358acba87b851a763fdd4e1dc093112 . He has been doing this for about 2 years. I am sure that he can speak more about the R community within nixpkgs. I mainly focus on python development but I would love to see a strong R packaging ecosystem because of how important both languages are for data science.
costrouc
on 26 Oct 2018
There is a nice documentation on how to do the upgrades. I'm currently running it and will do a PR as soon as it's finished.
pstn
on 26 Oct 2018
We have the latest versions in master now.
peti
on 3 Nov 2018
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There is a nice documentation on how to do the upgrades. I'm currently running it and will do a PR as soon as it's finished.