Hello, I would like to create a easyconfig for each R package, I find that to be best suitable for our environment at Pfizer. I know we can pass along the R packages in the R easybuild using exts_list . The only issue is we have our own set of R packages that we need to install, and I am not sure in which order they need to be installed.
It's important to separate the R installation from the R packages because in the case of a build error in R package it would fail to build R if they are both together. I would like to build R packages as modules which will be particularly important for some special R packages that require a special dependency. For instance we need R2Jags and that has a dependency for JAGS. I have JAGS in a module environment so I would like R2Jags module file to load Jags before a user can use R2Jags. When loading base R module it will allow user to have access to base R packages that is quite small. The special R packages that are build with Easybuild will have their R module only visible when loading R. This can be done via MODULEPATH variable. Similar to how you have Python package like numpy, I would like this framework for R packages. Shahzeb Siddiqui HPC Linux Engineer B2220-447.2 Groton, CT
