R Development flake

This flake is for cloning into a NixOS or Nix enabled system with direnv and nix-direnv installed¹. It provides a development environment for R projects. It supports Intel and ARM architectures as well as Linux and Darwin operating systems.

Usage

1. Clone this repository into your desired location.
2. Run direnv allow to allow the environment to be loaded automatically.

Features

The flake.lock file is used to pin the versions of the packages. The R environment is set up with the following packages:

R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Quarto 1.5.57
Pandoc 3.1.11.1
Radian 0.6.13

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Modifying

You can modify the flake.nix file to include additional packages. Afterwards, the next shell command will trigger a rebuild of the environment.

Updating

You can update the flake.lock file by running nix flake update. This will update the flake.lock file with the latest versions of the packages.

Footnotes

1. A direct installation of nix-direnv can be done with nix-env -iA nixpkgs.direnv. For a longer-term solution, you can add it to your configuration.nix file. ↩