Re: [outreach] Help trying to create R package

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

On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 2:13 PM Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Laura,
>
> Laura Lazzati <laura.lazzati.15@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > You were right. I took a look at my .bashrc file, and I had an:
> > export PATH="/home/laura/.guix-profile/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
> > I ran $guix pull, did the PATH export in my CLI, then checked the output of
> > $which guix, that was the same that was mentioned by you,
> > commented that previous line in .bashrc,
> > added  export PATH="/home/laura/.config/guix/current/bin${PATH:+:}$PATH"
> > and ran again the command to check the available R packages, made a
> > diff with the previous one, and now at least r-bae appears.
>
> You should export environment variables such as PATH in
> ‘~/.bash_profile’ instead of ‘~/.bashrc’.  :-)
>
> Quoting the documentation[1]:
>
>     Users sometimes wrongfully augment environment variables such as
>     ‘PATH’ in their ‘~/.bashrc’ file.  As a consequence, when ‘guix
>     environment’ launches it, Bash may read ‘~/.bashrc’, thereby
>     introducing “impurities” in these environment variables.  It is an
>     error to define such environment variables in ‘.bashrc’; instead,
>     they should be defined in ‘.bash_profile’, which is sourced only by
>     log-in shells.  See ‘Bash Startup Files[2]’, for details on Bash
>     start-up files.
Thanks! I am reading that part now, specially [2].
I have deleted the env variables from .bashrc and have just set them
in .profile, since my distro is Ubuntu, and I am reading that Ubuntu
does not use .bash_profile. Everything seems to be working fine. Thank
you again :)

> Cheers,
> Clément
>
> [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-environment.html#FOOT15
> [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Bash-Startup-Files.html#Bash-Startup-Files