The current behaviour for generate-r-packages.R is to delete
packages that have been remove upstream. This patch changes the
behaviour to mark packages as broken rather than removing them.
This has the advantage of never breaking expressions, which
previously occured when a package with overrides in default.nix
was deleted. As a result, the update procedure is simplified,
allowing automated updates to the package tree to run, and
additionally if a package is re-established upstream the previous
overrides still exist.
BioConductor releases are tied to specific R releases.
Updating the package set now automatically selects the
correct version of bioconductor to match the current version of
R.
r-modules: fix r package system dependencies
r-modules: fix terra package dependencies
r-modules: fix edge case for R package import
The R package "import" has a name that clashes
with the nix function "import". The package
name in nixpkgs is correctly modified to
avoid the clash, but the name of the
R package was also being changed in
cran-packages.nix, which broke downloading
of the package.
cran-packages.nix has been manually patched,
and genreate-r-packages.R has been fixed so
future automatic updates will succeed.
r-modules: fix repeated `pkgs.` and svglite
The last snapshot was 4 months ago (2020-08-19). I also found that I needed newer definitions when I was trying to fix the R arrow package.
This update required a couple of manual changes:
1. Removing a few deleted packages from default.nix
2. Renaming the "assert" package to "r_assert" in generate-r-packages.R because "assert" is a keyword in Nix
- Update the instructions for re-generating each of the package set files.
- Provide test-evaluation.nix expression to verify that the package sets evaluates.
- Update list of known broken packages.
