Should we provide EpiNow2 on conda forge?

[jamesmbaazam]

A user recently tried to install the package on conda forge based on the LSHTM HPC instructions provided here but that failed because the package isn't provided there. Do you think we should consider doing this?

The conda forge community has done a great job providing templates and a guide for contributing a package. See here for the R template and here for the contribution guide.

Are there reasons why this is not a good idea?

[seabbs]

Aside from more maintenance burden not that I can think of.

[jamesmbaazam]

Yes, that's definitely an important consideration.

[sbfnk]

Don't know much about conda forge but that looks like it might be a good idea if it helps people install - just to check, though: you could just install via install.packages(), right? Is there any particular advantage to using conda forge?

[jamesmbaazam]

I'm not sure but I think the conda forge route is useful if there are admin rights issues with installations?

[seabbs]

its useful if people are using conda

[jamesmbaazam]

I don't think that there's a strong need for it, so maybe we can close this discussion and revisit if it becomes a need.