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From: Bioc-devel <bioc-devel-bounces at r-project.org> on behalf of Herv? Pag?s <hpages.on.github at gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2026 1:26 PM
To: Verena Korber; bioc-devel at r-project.org
Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Bioconductor package based on Julia?
Hi Verena,
I personally don't have any experience with using Julia within an R
package, and I don't think we have any packages in Bioconductor that do
this at the moment. As you mentioned, the implication is that users will
need a Julia installation for the package to run. Ask yourself how many
users are going to be comfortable doing this. I don't know how
mainstream Julia has become at this point, and how easy it is to
install. Is it available on the 4 major platforms that we officially
support, i.e. on Linux, Windows, Intel Mac, and Mac Silicon?
It also means that we will need to install Julia on our build machines.
And also that, in the near future, the builds on r-universe will be able
to accommodate this requirement (I'm mentioning this in the context of
an ongoing effort by the core team to move the Bioconductor daily builds
to the r-universe build facilities).
At the very least, you'll need to:
1. List Julia in the SystemRequirements field of the package.
2. Provide an INSTALL file that explains how to install Julia on the 4
major platforms that we support. See
https://contributions.bioconductor.org/sysdep.html?q=install#sysdep
They have JuliaCall and JuliaConnectoR on CRAN for interfacing R with
Julia code, which I'm not familiar with either, but it seems to me that
you'd want to leverage that.
Sorry for the very generic answer. Hopefully someone on this mailing
list has some experience with Julia in R and can give more useful
recommendations.
Best,
H.
On 15/01/2026 08:47, Verena Korber via Bioc-devel wrote:
Hello,
We are currently developing an R package that sources Julia code. Is it possible to submit sth. like this to Bioconductor and if so, what would the requirements be? I guess one challenge is that users would need a Julia installation for the package to run. If anyone has any experience in that direction, it would be super helpful.
Many thanks and kind regards,
Verena
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