Ludovic Courtès22h ago

If you’re into #Rstats and/or #bioinformatics, if you care about #ReproducibleResearch, consider helping out fellow #Guix hackers!
https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-cran-scripts/

The scripts above are what powers the automated imports of CRAN and Bioconductor as Guix channels, and they need ❤

guix-cran-scripts

Scripts to automate the CRAN to Guix import.

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Show threadOlivier Leroy22h ago
@civodul I am too much of guix noob but would you mind sharing what kind of help do they need?
Show threadLudovic Courtès
@defuneste Overall it works pretty well (it’s quite amazing actually) but there are occasional issues, like https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-cran-scripts/issues/5
Periodic CRAN importer fails with "Too many open files"

The `update-guix-cran` timer has been failing for two weeks it seems: ``` 2026-03-23 05:29:24 Importing package ZooID from CRAN… 2026-03-23 05:29:24 Importing package zoomerjoin from CRAN… 2026-03-23 05:29:24 Importing package zoomgrid from CRAN… 2026-03-23 05:29:24 Importing package zoomr from ...

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Mar 24 at 3:50pmWeb
Show threadOlivier Leroy18h ago

@civodul Good to know! I am exited about Guix, I think/hope it will solve some difficult issue in the R ecosystem (but I could be totally wrong).

All of that being said I am far from understanding the underlying infrastructure of it (and the potential economic model behind it)!

(still glad to slowly learn)