[LOS! Workshop] Reproducible research with Nix and rix
In this workshop, Bruno Rodrigues will introduce you to the Nix package manager, which allows for reproducible software installations. This can be used not only to install R but also R packages from CRAN, Bioconductor, or even Github. Nix takes care of installing all the dependencies for the packages, so, for example, it will install Java if a required R package depends on it, such as {rJava}. To simplify the use of Nix, a package developed by the author and his colleague Philipp Baumann, {rix}, will be utilized.
Requirements to attend: comfortable with R and the command line. Nix needs to be already installed on the participants’ machines. See here: https://github.com/b-rodrigues/rix?tab=readme-ov-file#installing-nix for detailed instructions. The {rix} package must also be installed. As it is not on CRAN yet, you must install it from its own universe. Run the following line from an R session:
install.packages(“rix”, repos = c(“https://b-rodrigues.r-universe.dev”, “https://cloud.r-project.org”))
Lecturer: Bruno Rodrigues (PhD), statistician for the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in Luxembourg
The event is part of “Open Science – Opportunities for Educational Research”, an online series of the DIPF | Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education.