Re: Could anyone please package RStudio?

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Kyle,

> Now that Qt 5.12 and qtwebengine have been added to Guix, would an
> experienced packager be able to add RStudio to Guix?
[…]
> Below I provide
> links to the NixOS RStudio package along with Rekado's package of an
> older version of RStudio (which also didn't build for me).
>
> - 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/pkgs/development/r-modules/wrapper-rstudio.nix
> - 
> https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/f024caa7a8f274a16048e71c30e1bac9e75c0ab4/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
> - 
> https://github.com/BIMSBbioinfo/guix-bimsb/blob/master/bimsb/packages/staging.scm

It’s on my list to eventually package a more recent version of Rstudio.
I’ve been using the older version for quite some time at the institute,
but it’s possible that with recent upgrades to Guix the package no
longer builds.

One obstacle to adding RStudio to Guix is that Java to JavaScript
compiler that hasn’t been packaged yet.  In my package definition we’re
using the prebuilt Jar as a blob.

I won’t be able to work on this soon (probably not before March), but I
can lend a hand to whoever would like to package RStudio now.

--
Ricardo