We provide a default.nix file that defines the right development environment
if you already are a Nix user and wish to contribute to the package. This
development environment will provide bleeding edge packages, as it is uses a
fork of nixpkgs that gets updated daily (R packages included). Because this
environment is bleeding edge, no pre-built binaries are available from
chache.nixos.org, so building this environment locally is quite
time-consuming.
To speed-up this process, we also provide a cache of this environment that also gets updated several times a day. To use this cache, you need to have cachix installed and configured. So if you wish to use this development environment and its associated cache to very quickly have the right environment to contribute to the package, run the following steps:
- First, install cachix:
nix-env -iA cachix -f https://cachix.org/api/v1/install - Enable the cache:
cachix use rstats-on-nix
You might get an error message stating that your user cannot use caches. Simply follow the instructions in the warning to give the right permissions to your user to use caches.
Then, when you run nix-build, binaries will be pulled from
rstats-on-nix.cachix.org and cache.nixos.org. Building the development
environment is nothing more than waiting for packages to download.
There is also the possibility that you cannot successfully build the development
environment: because the nixpkgs fork gets updated fully automatically several
times a day without any checks, if building a package fails, there will be no
fix released yet.
If you cannot build the development environment, please open an issue, we could then propose a fix upstream.
In our development workflow, we use semantic versioning via {fledge}.
For general discussion about the package, open a discussion on https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/discussions. To submit bug reports or request features, open an issue https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix/issues.