Re: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews.

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> writes:

> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-biocviews): New variable.
> ---
>  gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
> index 3d607cc..fa32075 100644
> --- a/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
> +++ b/gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm
> @@ -5333,6 +5333,34 @@ CRAN, and (some) github packages.")
>  the graph algorithms contained in the Boost library.")
>      (license license:artistic2.0)))
>  
> +(define-public r-biocviews
> +  (package
> +    (name "r-biocviews")
> +    (version "1.40.1")
> +    (source (origin
> +              (method url-fetch)
> +              (uri (bioconductor-uri "biocViews" version))
> +              (sha256
> +               (base32
> +                "1d1g06zwx3xhc07mdhs5x31730xw08fg3x73xyfj0qdy2ykww3f9"))))
> +    (properties
> +     `((upstream-name . "biocViews")))
> +    (build-system r-build-system)
> +    (propagated-inputs
> +     `(("r-biobase" ,r-biobase)
> +       ("r-graph" ,r-graph)
> +       ("r-rbgl" ,r-rbgl)
> +       ("r-rcurl" ,r-rcurl)
> +       ("r-xml" ,r-xml)
> +       ("r-knitr" ,r-knitr)
> +       ("r-runit" ,r-runit)))
> +    (home-page "http://bioconductor.org/packages/Biocviews")
> +    (synopsis "Bioconductor structures for vocabularies and narratives of 
> +views")

I don’t know what this means.  Does this mean “data structures”?  What
is a vocabulary or narrative in this case?

~~ Ricardo