https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/266e82fb-080a-4a34-9292-3b7502f42659 {rix} is an R package that provides functions to help you write Nix expressions: these expressions can then be used by the Nix package manager to build completely reproducible development environments. These environments can be used for interactive data analysis or running pipelines in a CI/CD environment. Environments built with Nix contain R and all the required packages that you need for your project: there are currently more than 80.000 pieces of software available through the Nix package manager, including the entirety of CRAN and Bioconductor packages. The Nix package manager is extremely powerful: it not only handles all the dependencies of any package extremely well, it is also possible with it to reproduce environments containing old releases of software. It is thus possible to build environments that contain R version 4.0.0 (for example) to run an old project originally developed on that version of R. With Nix, it is essentially possible to replace {renv} and Docker combined. If you need other tools or languages like Python or Julia, this can also be done easily. Nix is available for Linux, macOS and Windows (via WSL2). Speaker: Bruno Rodrigues, Track: Nix and NixOS devroom, Room: H.1302 (Depage), When: Sunday 4 February 2024, 11:15–11:20 (Brussels time), Schedule: FOSDEM 2024 event page, Slides & links Slides, Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium (CC BY 2.0 BE) (as stated in the FOSDEM video archive). Attribution: “rix: an R package for reproducible dev environments with Nix” by Bruno Rodrigues, FOSDEM 2024. Original recording: 2024/h1302/fosdem-2024-1767-rix-an-r-package-for-reproducible-dev-environments-with-nix.av1.webm from the FOSDEM video archive. This channel is an unofficial mirror; FOSDEM is a free and non-commercial event organised by the community for the community. Mon, 26 Oct 2026 02:11:27 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.watch https://peertube.watch/lazy-static/avatars/3b284627-b75f-409e-ac2e-10f4c2946f43.png https://peertube.watch/videos/watch/266e82fb-080a-4a34-9292-3b7502f42659 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.watch/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.