cran2crux: automatically create CRUX ports for R-packages (opens in new tab)

Motivation: R together with CRAN and Bioconductor provides one of the richest ecosystems for bioinformatics and computational biology, with thousands of specialized packages. While GNU/Linux is a vastly-used operating system in this field, R-packages are typically managed independently of the system's native package manager. This separation makes installation, updates and mass rebuilds cumbersome. CRUX, a minimalist semi-source GNU/Linux distribution, offers great flexibility with its ports-b...