To customize R to your site create a separate EasyConfig using easyblock = 'Bundle' and exts_defaultclass = 'RPackage'. Depend the "Published" R from the official EasyBuild/EasyConfig repo. Create a new exts_list with packages local to your site that are not in the base R easyconfig. You will also be able to add BioConductor packages to your new custom build of R.
Please look at an example; I add the suffix "fh1" for Fred Hutch". https://github.com/FredHutch/easybuild-life-sciences/blob/master/fh_easyconfigs/R-3.5.1-foss-2018b-fh1.eb John Dey On 1/18/19, 4:05 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Loris Bennett" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Hi, I'm installing R and see that a whole bunch of R packages are also being installed via exts_list. However, if I need additional packages, do I just make a copy of the original easyconfig and just add to exts_list? Or is there some way of having a list of only the additional packages which could somehow be included by the current and all future standard R easyconfigs? Cheers, Loris -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
