nix-shell which can compile site

Author: aezarebski

shell.nix

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+# To enable this shell run nix-shell from the command line and you will be
+# dropped into a shell with the necessary packages installed to compile this
+# site.
+#
+# NOTE If you encounter errors with the stringi library, the stackoverflow
+# answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/35094828/15291819 provides a solution that
+# seems to work, you just need to install stringi with the following command
+#
+# > install.packages("stringi",
+#                    repos="http://cran.rstudio.com/",
+#                    dependencies=TRUE)
+#
+
+let
+  commitHash = "78dc359abf8217da2499a6da0fcf624b139d7ac3";
+  tarballUrl = "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/${commitHash}.tar.gz";
+  pkgs = import (fetchTarball tarballUrl) {};
+  stdenv = pkgs.stdenv;
+in with pkgs; {
+  myProject = stdenv.mkDerivation {
+    name = "example-r-env";
+    version = "1";
+    src = if pkgs.lib.inNixShell then null else nix;
+
+    buildInputs = with rPackages; [
+      R
+      dplyr
+      purrr
+      magrittr
+      ggplot2
+      stringr
+      pandoc
+    ];
+   shellHook = ''
+             printf "\n\nWelcome to a reproducible R shell :)\n\n"
+      '';
+  };
+}