Running R in NixOS

In Nix and Guix, you can't install R packages with an R command like install_github() or install_git(), because they attempt to write to /nix/store/...-r-remotes-2.0.2/library. Nothing is allowed to write to /nix/store.

To make it work, add a lib= parameter pointing to a folder of your own:

remotes::install_git("https://github.com/rmcelreath/rethinking.git", lib="~/R/library")

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