Hi John, Am I right in assuming that the module file produced by the easyconfig is somewhat redundant, since the extra packages will be installed to the standard R library path and will be available as soon as the main R module is loaded, regardless of whether the module with the extras is loaded too?
Cheers, Loris "Dey, John F" <[email protected]> writes: > To customize R to your site create a separate EasyConfig using easyblock = > 'Bundle' and exts_defaultclass = 'RPackage'. Depend the "Published" R from > the > official EasyBuild/EasyConfig repo. Create a new exts_list with packages local > to your site that are not in the base R easyconfig. You will also be able to > add BioConductor packages to your new custom build of R. > > Please look at an example; I add the suffix "fh1" for Fred Hutch". > https://github.com/FredHutch/easybuild-life-sciences/blob/master/fh_easyconfigs/R-3.5.1-foss-2018b-fh1.eb > > > > John Dey > > On 1/18/19, 4:05 AM, "[email protected] on behalf of Loris > Bennett" <[email protected] on behalf of > [email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm installing R and see that a whole bunch of R packages are also > being installed via exts_list. However, if I need additional packages, > do I just make a copy of the original easyconfig and just add to > exts_list? Or is there some way of having a list of only the additional > packages which could somehow be included by the current and all future > standard R easyconfigs? > > Cheers, > > Loris > > -- > Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) > ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected] > > -- Dr. Loris Bennett (Mr.) ZEDAT, Freie Universität Berlin Email [email protected]
