| 10 Jul 2023 |
 Gaétan Lepage | I am only targetting 0.4.12 with this PR because 0.4.13 brings yet new issues (related to jax's dependencies) | 13:19:34 |
| Gaétan Lepage | Honestly, it is kind of a nightmare ^^ | 13:19:49 |
 trexd | Yeah it seems like it. Ya'll are doing excellent work though :D | 17:45:14 |
 peddie | welcome! I've had some luck (with jbedo's help) setting up R development environments with flakes in the past year. feel free to ping me about it; I think nix is underused in the R world! | 22:11:53 |
| 11 Jul 2023 |
 Bruno Rodrigues | thanks peddie! actually I was exactly going to be asking this: should I use flakes for this? and another question: have you written down some of this into a guide ? | 05:31:26 |
 jbedo | the decision to use flakes is orthogonal to R, i use it and find it useful but it does have limitiations and are somewhat controversial | 05:39:21 |
| jbedo | regardless of using flakes or not, focusing on understanding core nix will go a long way | 05:43:30 |
| peddie | I've not written much down as it's just what I have managed to scrape together, and I don't have any blog or commit bits to nixpkgs. but there are examples in projects on github, like https://github.com/peddie/solar-api/blob/master/flake.nix | 05:55:52 |
| peddie | as to whether you should use flakes: not really sure, I just happened to go that route | 05:56:25 |
| Bruno Rodrigues | very interesting thanks! I’m still in exploration phase, and am reading lots of docs currently. Already managed to drop into a nix interactive shell with R and some packages. But I’m looking more into it to see if I could build some R package that would make it easy to essentially set up, for each new project one starts, an dev environment using nix | 06:42:52 |
| Bruno Rodrigues | yesterday I read about flakes, so I was wondering if and what was the consensus on them :) | 06:43:36 |
| Bruno Rodrigues | what would you say is the biggest benefit of using flakes over not using them? | 06:44:02 |
| peddie | OK, it sounds a bit like templates (for setting up a dev env)? | 07:01:43 |
| peddie | I think there is emphatically no consensus on flakes | 07:01:50 |
