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
This post discusses briefly, the nix-shell environment for reproducible programming. In particular, there is an emphasis on extensions for installing and working with packages not in CRAN, i.e. packages off Github which are normally installed with devtools. Background The entire nix ecosystem is fantastic, and is the main packaging system used by d-SEAMS as well. Recently I began working through the excellent second edition of “Statistical Rethinking” by Richard McElreath1.| rgoswami.me