Olivier Leroy

the first one took me the weekend to digest:)
I have no opinion or any skills related to how a project workflow should be implemented (also R has no module 😅 so we simplified some of it, or not) and was fine with the "hack" for projects = profile
but yes I was "seduced" by the idea of having something more integrated at the project lvl

2026-06-15 20:10:58 CEST

@npub1e8h…7zjt have you see the post comparing nix and guix? (before it get removed by the author) I did not know about flakes but it seems your workflow is close to it and for "dumb" users like me could use something similar at the project level (by similar single entry points not relying on some direnv/shell tricks, not that those tricks are bad)

2026-05-02 01:31:14 CEST

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@defuneste/116501764536500708
so far it it surprisingly easy, I went with @npub1e8h…7zjt direnv "path" instead of the approach from the cookbook.
Opening a beer.
#note13df…7f66

2026-04-16 14:58:31 CEST

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oh I may need that!

2026-04-08 02:59:22 CEST

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I am slowly reaching the level to understand your blog :)

2026-04-08 02:34:11 CEST

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guix is a functional package manager, you can use it in gha since most of your action probably run in linux (it will prob be slower than getting binary but I could be wrong). I hope it gave us some unified way of managing environment.

2026-04-07 15:39:33 CEST

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I am still unclear if i want to go the guix path for that (and do not if It will be correct) but always good to have other options!

2026-03-04 21:53:40 CET

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I am on the fence with that, I think it is easier to let a user than generate the list and them maybe convert to yaml (but I could be wrong).

2026-03-04 21:10:44 CET

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the type issue that think Norway (NO) is false.
But yeah, I do not get why "persistent" data should be some yaml, json is not that bad (and in my use case a list in .R totally fine)

2026-03-04 21:03:11 CET

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let me have a Norway problem and over engineering it!

2026-03-04 20:31:03 CET

I am that close to use a config file as an argument instead of a simple list! #rstats send coffee!

2026-02-25 16:26:58 CET

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My bad, my question was why not having line number a default. I am adding -n all the time

2026-02-25 16:08:44 CET

what are the case when you are using grep and do not want lines number?

2026-01-04 01:07:27 CET

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yup worked, it need other packages so I am going to use guix this time to install them and see

2026-01-04 00:57:00 CET

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in my "user" profile

2025-12-03 15:04:11 CET

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do you have a post on why not r2u?
(thanks for clarifying for fedora, I should distro hoppes into it to learn it more!)

2025-12-03 14:25:11 CET

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I do not have any idea of Posit client OS distribution. Would fedora users more likely to use cran2copr or simply prefer building from source? (I am on Ubuntu and either build from source or use r2u).

2025-11-12 14:34:14 CET

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a bit too afraid of switching from ubuntu "confy" and my laptop is too old to run some VM and test (yes 4GB of ram is a lot for me). Hopefully soon I will be able to get a "new" one and then I will gic into Guix!
Thanks for documenting your experience! (will save me a lot if troubles)

2025-11-06 00:01:28 CET

#RStats we are in Changelog last podcast as the weird one that do not pin their versions of package 🥳
https://changelog.com/podcast/665

2025-05-25 14:01:36 CEST

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amazed by the colors you can get!

2025-05-19 14:34:46 CEST

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gRuix ? :P

2025-05-01 14:20:03 CEST

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my mom is on Ubuntu and yes! Disabling the notifiers help, since she did not like it at all.

2025-03-12 13:18:47 CET

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😭 ... every thing need to be reached by car ...

2024-12-19 21:06:01 CET

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can we have the "pedantic_coin" package (just one function):
coin <- function() {
if (rbinom(1 ,1, .5) == 0) "head" else "tails"
}

2024-08-06 22:26:19 CEST

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I do not know about all the CTV but for the spatial you just post an issue or just do a PR here -> https://github.com/cran-task-views/Spatial/