Publish on conda-forge?

[Hoeze]

Hi, there is already https://github.com/conda-forge/polars-feedstock/.
Would it be possible to also have a conda-forge package for rpolars?

[eitsupi]

For R packages, I think generally conda-forge sources CRAN.
r-polars is not published on CRAN, so I don't know if it can be published on conda-forge.

[Hoeze]

@eitsupi It's not a requirement to have it published on CRAN, you can also just pull the sources directly from github:
https://github.com/conda-forge/staged-recipes/blob/main/recipes/example/meta.yaml#L17-L21
I think in case of R-Polars it anyways makes more sense to directly build it from the repo.

Here is the repo from the r-data.table packge for comparison:
https://github.com/conda-forge/r-data.table-feedstock/blob/main/recipe/meta.yaml
It would not be an issue to replace the URLs simply with the github one.

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Out of interest: Is there anything that keeps you from publishing it on CRAN?

[sorhawell]

Dear @Hoeze.

Thank you for suggesting conda-forge. Currently rpolars is not straight forward to install on any distribution/OS if the user is not using rust. Windows/mac is easy. Linux is mixed.

Similarly @Sicheng-Pan has provided a Nix build. In my opinion rpolars will support and promote on front page any build "augmentation" such as conda-forge, if someone implements it and maintains a test workflow.

For me alone, it can be overwhelming to support all release/build channels. I happily take all the help I can get :)

CRAN is for sure coming up, you can track the current issues here