Hi Laura, On Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:13:23 -0300 Laura Lazzati wrote: [importing problems ...] Could you solve your certificate-problem? Have you been successfully in importing a package? Unfortunately the package of your choice is already part of guix: $ guix package -s "rtracklayer$" name: r-rtracklayer version: 1.40.6 outputs: out systems: x86_64-linux i686-linux armhf-linux aarch64-linux mips64el-linux dependencies: pkg-config@0.29.2 r-biocgenerics@0.26.0 r-biostrings@2.48.0 + r-genomeinfodb@1.16.0 r-genomicalignments@1.16.0 r-genomicranges@1.32.6 + r-iranges@2.14.11 r-rcurl@1.95-0.1.2 r-rsamtools@1.32.3 r-s4vectors@0.18.3 + r-xml@3.98-1.16 r-xvector@0.20.0 zlib@1.2.11 location: gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm:7696:2 homepage: https://bioconductor.org/packages/rtracklayer license: Artistic License 2.0 synopsis: R interface to genome browsers and their annotation tracks description: rtracklayer is an extensible framework for interacting with + multiple genome browsers (currently UCSC built-in) and manipulating annotation + tracks in various formats (currently GFF, BED, bedGraph, BED15, WIG, BigWig + and 2bit built-in). The user may export/import tracks to/from the supported + browsers, as well as query and modify the browser state, such as the current + viewport. relevance: 4 Can you find another one? > I am trying to do my best. I am reading the documentation carefully, I > recall mentioning that I am that kind of person, but I also know that > time counts for the contributions. Yes, you mentioned that :-) The documentation is huge, with lots of special concepts. I would recommend reading it only partially, whenever you need more information. > And if I figure out how to package > R packages, then I can also package more packages and, whatever the > result of outreachy might be, well, there are more useful packages in > guix. > For instance, I tried, before of asking for help with the example > shown with cairo and it worked fine, so I was not understanding very > well what was happening, > In addition, I have just run > $ guix package -s "\" | recsel -p name,synopsis >> > outputRwithNameAndSynopsis.txt > and found even more R packages already installed. Here is another one: guix package -s "^r-" | recsel -p name| grep '\S' | sort >r.txt the carret-symbol "^" matches the beginning of the line. There are some empty lines, which get sorted out with the grep. > Well, time to work! Good luck! Björn