Request for conda package of GISAIDR

[ammaraziz]

Hi Wytamma,

I've written a snakemake pipeline that uses GISAIDR. Pipeline installation requires manually running:

devtools::install_github("Wytamma/GISAIDR")

This could be automated in R with a function that checks if GISAIDR is installed and then installs it if required. But I think a simpler method would be a custom conda package in personal repo.

From here, we can build a conda package by running:

conda skeleton cran https://github.com/Wytamma/GISAIDR
conda build --R=4.2.0 r-gisaidr

(I am authenticated with anaconda.org so there's some magic happening to upload it to my repo)

This build of GISAIDR was uploaded to my conda channel and can be installed with:

conda install -c ammaraziz r-gisaidr

Not sure how much work is required to get this automated into github actions so the build step is insync with new versions of gisaidr.

[Wytamma]

Great idea! I'll look into adding the conda package command to run when a new release is made. In the mean time I think (haven't tried) you can use post-deployment-scripts to install an R package into the env automatically.