rix: Reproducible Data Science Environments with 'Nix'

Simplifies the creation of reproducible data science environments using the 'Nix' package manager, as described in Dolstra (2006) <ISBN 90-393-4130-3>. The included ‘rix()' function generates a complete description of the environment as a 'default.nix' file, which can then be built using ’Nix'. This results in project specific software environments with pinned versions of R, packages, linked system dependencies, and other tools. Additional helpers make it easy to run R code in 'Nix' software environments for testing and production.

Version:	0.14.3
Depends:	R (≥ 2.10)
Imports:	codetools, curl, jsonlite, sys, utils
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Published:	2025-01-10
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.rix
Author:	Bruno Rodrigues [aut, cre], Philipp Baumann [aut], David Watkins [rev] (David reviewed the package (v. 0.9.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625>), Jacob Wujiciak-Jens [rev] (Jacob reviewed the package (v. 0.9.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/625>), Richard J. Acton [ctb], Jordi Rosell [ctb], Elio Campitelli [ctb], László Kupcsik [ctb], Michael Heming [ctb]
Maintainer:	Bruno Rodrigues <bruno at brodrigues.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/ropensci/rix/issues
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
URL:	https://docs.ropensci.org/rix/
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README NEWS
In views:	ReproducibleResearch
CRAN checks:	rix results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

rix.pdf

Vignettes:

a-getting-started (source, R code) b1-setting-up-and-using-rix-on-linux-and-windows (source, R code) b2-setting-up-and-using-rix-on-macos (source, R code) c-using-rix-to-build-project-specific-environments (source, R code) d1-installing-r-packages-in-a-nix-environment (source, R code) d2-installing-system-tools-and-texlive-packages-in-a-nix-environment (source, R code) e-interactive-use (source, R code) f-converting-renv-projects-to-nix-projects (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-building-an-environment-for-literate-programming (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-handling-packages-with-remote-dependencies (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-reproducible-analytical-pipelines-with-nix (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-running-r-or-shell-code-in-nix-from-r (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-using-nix-inside-doceker (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-rolling-out-your-own-binary-cache (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-understanding-the-rpackages-set-release-cycle-and-using-bleeding-edge-packages (source, R code) z-advanced-topic-contributing-to-nixpkgs (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	rix_0.14.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: rix_0.14.3.zip, r-release: rix_0.14.3.zip, r-oldrel: rix_0.14.3.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): rix_0.14.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): rix_0.14.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): rix_0.14.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): rix_0.14.3.tgz
Old sources:	rix archive

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