Brief introduction to a nix based project workflow. Background For CarpentryCon@Home 2020, along with Amrita Goswami, I am to prepare and deliver a workshop on “Reproducible Environments with the Nix Packaging System”. In particular, as a community of practice lesson, the focus is not on packaging (as is typical of most Nix tutorials) nor on the Nix expression language itself, but instead on the use of Nix as a replacement for virtual environments using mkShell.| rgoswami.me
A short post on my current set-up for R with nixpkgs and emacs to auto-compile my system configuration. Background This is my third post on working with nixpkgs and R. Part I covered ways of working effectively with R and nixpkgs Part II dealt with composing dependent devtools packages in a per-package environment, with a focus on rethinking and tidybayes.rethinking This final part is about automating the system-wide configuration using emacs.| rgoswami.me