@jbedo, thanks for your PR! By analyzing the history of the files in this pull request, we identified @abbradar, @jefdaj and @michelk to be potential reviewers.

Is it okay to update these and not the other package sets? Hopefully! :)

Unfortunately this fails the 'test-evaluation.nix' check, looks like default.nix needs to be updated as well. Not sure if that just means removing references to no-longer-existing packages or if there's more to it?

$ nix-build test-evaluation.nix --dry-run
error: attribute ‘BNSP’ missing, at /~~/pkgs/development/r-modules/default.nix:83:8
(use ‘--show-trace’ to show detailed location information)

+1. Resolves issues with this older pull request #20704 .

The "--with-system*" configure flags are deprecated in 3.3.2, so it makes sense to remove them from the default.nix.

This builds a functioning R on my macOS 10.11.6 machine, although this update does not solve what seems to be a longer standing issue that no interactive graphical device (x11, quartz,...) is available in the macOS build.

Thanks guys for the feedback. I've removed the --with-system flags and fixed the errors found by test-evaluation.nix, including a naming clash between the R package "import" and the import keyword in nix (fixed in the generation script).

Note that we branch-off 17.03 today, so let's test and merge this. @lukego can you test this work for you?

@domenkozar Trying to test now. Just at the moment running pkgs/development/r-modules$ nix-build test-evaluation.nix on commit 4c2d75f is hanging with hundreds/thousands of messages like:

...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/w7vrygwn1z466bgrafsjvprkxbalg4bz.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/yh6hz97k25cjcbks0g2yvx49ay6z23r8.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/l760g144v984jbm3kinxhl44693x3rm6.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/rrdzdk8ch21jvpfdxjngc9n49wgmxi4r.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
download-from-binary-cache.pl: still waiting for ‘https://cache.nixos.org/s8yvbk11xg0mrj8k6gw8k8ig5q6ag1b7.narinfo’ after 5 seconds...
...

@lukego Nix should get 404 for most of those links and fallback to source building after some seconds. Does it not?

@domenkozar No, on my NixOS machine (lugano-3.snabb.co) it seems to be hanging for minutes at least after printing those messages. I am trying on my OSX machine now instead.

Try adding --option connect-timeout 5 to the cli args

@domenkozar No difference. Can Hydra test this instead somehow instead of depending on my private tests?

Will do that after lunch

R builds OK for me, but I haven't tested it except for starting up the interpreter.

I am a relative R newbie. I have some software I have developed with Rstudio that I want to deploy with nix, but I don't know exactly what versions I depend on, and I am happy if nixpkgs just picks up the latest versions and then I make that work for me.

http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/r-updates#tabs-evaluations is evaluating /cc @peti

It's almost half way through and most of packages compile. We can fix those that don't in the next month :) Thanks!