Installing packages from github

Hi Project IDX community !
In a situation where a particular version of a package is not available in nixpkgs is there an easy way to install it based on the release from GitHub and if so how best to do it?

Cheers

Thanks for trying out idx! If this is a language specific package, packages can be installed through that instead (ex: pip, npm).

Are you able to share what specifc package you are trying to install please?

Hi Alex :slight_smile:

I agree when it comes to language-specific packages.
I am trying to install the R language (which is available in nix packages, but only one version, and I need a specific one).

Additionally, I wanted to try out GitHub - wavetermdev/waveterm: An open-source, cross-platform terminal for seamless workflows and unfortunately, it is not available as a nix package.