Re: R dependencies

[Vicente Vera <vicentemvp@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Going back to the R dependencies topic, I ran across an issue when
trying to draw a plot (with ggplot2). But first some context:

- I'm not using GuixSD but a binary installation over Manjaro OpenRC;
several base packages missing on Guix
- I only have other two Guix packages installed: xpdf & abbaye
- I installed ggplot2 through install.packages("ggplot2") in R (Guix package)

R complained about some fonts missing, but I think it could be related
to a missing X11 dependency (complete Xorg maybe?). What could it be?

2015-09-02 10:09 GMT-03:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>:
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:
>
>> An alternative is to inherit from the “r” package in “statistics.scm”.
>>
>>     (define-module (my own packages)
>>       #:use-module (guix packages)
>>       #:use-module (gnu packages statistics)
>>       #:use-module (srfi srfi-1))
>>
>>     (define-public my-r
>>       (package (inherit r)
>>         (name "my-r")
>>         ;; modify only the inputs here
>>         (native-inputs (alist-delete "texlive" (package-native-inputs r)))
>>         (inputs (alist-delete "icedtea6" (package-inputs r)))))
>
> Speaking of which: should we get rid of icedtea6:jdk in the default R
> package (closure size: 1 GiB), and maybe of TeX Live (4 GiB)?  Or should
> we provide, say, ‘r-light’ with the definition above?
>
> I’m afraid having these two dependencies by default makes it
> prohibitively expensive.
>
> Ludo’.