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* guix.texi (Invoking guix import): Mention support for Mercurial repositories
for the CRAN importer, and some caveats with the Git and Mercurial backends.
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Prompted by Ricardo’s comments on the “Accuracy of importers” thread:
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guix import cran --archive=bioconductor GenomicRanges
@end example
-Finally, you can also import R packages that have not yet been published on
-CRAN or Bioconductor as long as they are in a git repository. Use
-@option{--archive=git} followed by the URL of the git repository:
+Finally, you can also import R packages that have not yet been published
+on CRAN or Bioconductor as long as they are in a Git or Mercurial
+repository. Use @option{--archive=git} or @option{--archive=hg}
+followed by the URL of the repository:
@example
guix import cran --archive=git https://github.com/immunogenomics/harmony
@end example
+One limitation of this is that dependencies that are also hosted on Git
+or Mercurial repositories cannot be imported. Also, note that the
+@command{hg} executable has to be in the users's @env{PATH} for the
+Mercurial backend to work.
+
@item texlive
@cindex TeX Live
@cindex CTAN
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