Hi Ricardo, On Fri, 22 May 2026 at 11:52, Ricardo Wurmus <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'll > continue to do this until I go away from computers from June 16 > until at least the end of October. I hope it’s for having fun. > It has been suggested to move all R packages to a separate > channel. Alas this won't work because of packages in the main > channel that the R collection depends on (such as arrow from (gnu > packages databases) or the cargo-inputs function), and because > there are packages that depend on the R collection (such as pigx). > If you have constructive ideas about how to meaningfully separate > the R package collection from the main channel without major > disruptions, please share them with us. I also have mixed feelings. Well, since R and other packages as pigx are mainly used in scientific context, maybe they could be transferred and maintained under the Guix-Science channel and another channel under the umbrella of Guix-Science. The dependency between Guix and Guix-Science is a topic and still open, see [1]. > It would also be great if someone could take over maintenance of > the r-team branch in my absence, and perhaps take care of the > merge as well. Well, I’m part of team-r, so I guess it’s part of my duties. :-) I’ll try to do my best. Cheers, simon 1: https://codeberg.org/guix-science/guix-science/issues/255
