Peter Bittner (b959f755) at 09 Mar 15:52

... and 2 more commits

Peter Bittner (cfd5a308) at 09 Mar 15:44

Peter Bittner (576bb78a) at 09 Mar 15:44

I might need R for my statistics studies. So I tried adding it to my nixos configuration. Did I do it the right way? Is there something left to do?

I might need R for my statistics studies. So I tried adding it to my nixos configuration. Did I do it the right way? Is there something left to do?

Peter Bittner (cfd5a308) at 09 Mar 15:39

For Codium, I would suggest installing the two REditorSupport extensions, so you get highlighting and autocompletion (I assume) in case you want to use Codium.

          reditorsupport.r
          reditorsupport.r-syntax
          tamasfe.even-better-toml

I'd suggest you install both, the R CLI (REPL) and rstudio, the RStudio desktop application.

        rWrapper
        rstudioWrapper

Wow, you're using Duo Chat! I'd love to know how you got the idea to use it.

You can install RStudio on NixOS if that is what everyone uses. Otherwise you may want to install one of the various R extensions for Codium, and have an environment you already know. You can try out RStudio with:

nix run nixpkgs#rstudioWrapper

Or try to run Codium in an R-shell, and try out one of the extensions: (e.g. from REditorSupport)

nix shell nixpkgs#rWrapper -c codium

P.S.: Found a blog post of someone suggesting an R-setup with VS Code.

GitLab Duo Chat suggested R (simple) and rWrapper (with more options).

What do you suggest I do? I couldn't figure out how to install RStudio as there is no file for NixOS on their website.

I understand now: As someone explains on the NixOS Discourse this is useful if you want to install R plugins, later. This makes sense.

R in the terminal or RStudio IDE?

Note that R is just a command line application. Probably similar to Python.

There is also RStudio, which is an IDE, i.e. a graphical desktop application.

The change is correct! Just a few questions for understanding better:

• How did you find the package name?
• Why did you choose rWrapper? Why not simply R?

JFYI, you can always run a program - without installing it permanently - using nix run or nix shell, e.g.

nix run nixpkgs#rWrapper

nix shell nixpkgs#rWrapper

I might need R for my statistics studies. So I tried adding it to my nixos configuration. Did I do it the right way? Is there something left to do?

Fabio Bittner (3d330bd3) at 06 Mar 15:29

Peter Bittner (7a470b58) at 05 Mar 22:24

Peter Bittner (2cedd747) at 23 Feb 01:48

GNOME Software was added with commit 892cff60. From a desktop user perspective it gives back control, but it also provides firmware updates for the device hardware.

It would be nice to have Nix packages listed (read-only) in GNOME Software. The detail pages may describe how to add the package to your NixOS configuration, just like MyNixOS and search.NixOS.org do it.

Related Resources

• GNOME/gnome-software#2954 (GNOME GitLab)
• NixOS plugin for GNOME Software (Discourse)
• Fwupd project (GitHub)
• Fwupd (NixOS wiki)

AppManager is a sweet application (packaged as an AppImage itself) that enhances the usability of installing, using and updating AppImage applications.

AppManager gives desktop users more control that may feel overwhelmed by NixOS' IaC paradigm, with the drawback of losing (apps and) control for reinstalls.

As for user convenience, this is similar to using Flatpak on NixOS (see commit 892cff60).

Alternatives

• programs.appimage (NixOS integration)
• AppImageUpdate (NixOS: appimageupdate)

Related Resouces

• AppManager
• AppImage (NixOS.wiki)
• AppImage (wiki.NixOS)

Fixed via 911a484a, which added the system/desktop/gnome/remote.nix module.