Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package

[Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com>]

Hi! I'm stuck :/
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 4:17 AM Björn Höfling
<bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 22:01:58 -0300
> Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 7:19 PM Björn Höfling
> > <bjoern.hoefling@bjoernhoefling.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Laura,
> > Hi! I had not answered yet because I thought I would be too verbose.
> > If so, please do a Laura -v instead of Laura -vvvvvvv.
> > Thanks for writing :) it encourages me a lot.
>
> You're welcome. It's nice to hear from your progress. Verbosity-level
> is fine :-)
>
> [..]
>
> > > Here is another one:
> > >
> > > guix package -s "^r-" | recsel -p name| grep '\S' | sort >r.txt
> >
> > Something I faced after writing, was that in the link one of you
> > provided: [1]https://guix.mdc-berlin.de/
> > I have all the packages that are already available in guix. I like
> > using the guix package command to practice that too, but i found it
> > practical to see packages easier. I found out that package aspi
> > (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=aspi) is not available, and I
> > would like to ask you if you believe it is a good candidate.
> > One available package, according to [1] is r-abe
> > (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/abe/index.html)
>
> Sorry I have no clue of R at all. Could someone else please answer that
> question, is r-aspi a good candidate?
>
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aspi/index.html
>
>
> > I wanted to see the template, so I ran:
> > $ guix import cran abe
> > And got the template, that matches even the version, and everything
> > stated in the site.
> > But then I tried:
> > $ guix package -i r-abe and got no results.
> > In fact, after running the command you have just provided, r-abe is
> > not appearing in the r.txt file.
> > I can't understand why that is happening. Am I missing something, or
> > is there maybe an inconsistency between [1] and the guix installed in
> > my foreign distro?
>
> Concerning r-abe: I don't know how the list at guix-hpc is created
> , how often it is updated or if there are extra packages in there. In
> your case, I suppose you lack behind:
>
> There is a commit for r-abe from 2019-09-13, so it is only a month old.
> I think you are lacking behind. Have you done a `guix pull`? That's the
> command used to update the package definitions.
>
> In case you already did a guix pull recently, and you still don't see
> it, there could be a problem with your $PATH, that the wrong guix is
> coming first. Do a `which guix`.
> Guix should be the one in ~/.config/guix/current/bin/guix
>
>
> > Just wanted to install it to run guix edit to check if the suggested
> > packages were already available or if I needed to package them too,
> > but I have installed r-ade4, which has both imports and suggests, and
> > I have just run:
> > $guix import cran ade4
> > And noticed that it only states in the template the Import package
> > (MASS)
>
> If I see that right, for R we only add the "Imports" packages, as they
> are absolutely needed for compiling/running. All "Suggests" can be
> installed/used just at runtime. Please correct me anyone if I'm wrong,
> I'm not into R.
>
>
> > Here is my template for aspi (I named it for myself r-aspi.scm). I ran
> > guix download from its site, and also guix hash to convert it to
> > base32:
> >
> > (define-public r-aspi
> > (package
> >   (name "r-aspi")
> >   (version "0.2.0")
> >   (source
> >     (origin
> >       (method url-fetch)
> >       (uri (cran-uri "aspi" version))
> >       (sha256
> >         (base32
> >           "a7izhueiqsdjs2eo7dfyb63cqje7mbqz6ennlyoynxxucbhpdnta"))))
> >   (build-system r-build-system)
> >    (home-page
> >     "https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/aspi/")
> >   (synopsis
> >     "Analysis of Symmetry of Parasitic Infections")
> >   (description
> >     "Tools for the analysis and visualization of bilateral asymmetry
> > in parasitic infections.")
> >   (license gpl3+)))
> > And that's were I ended up today (it is still Tuesday, almost 10pm)
>
> I haven't done a full review, but that looks good. Next you need to get
> the guix sources and prepare a patch.
>
> That's described here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Contributing.html#Contributing
I have already read this chapter, but I am messed up. I have already
cloned from git, but I have some questions:
1) Do I need to install everything from the git repo in my distro?
2) How do I convert my template into a package? I can't figure out that part.
>
>
> Björn

Regards,
Laura