Thank you for the library, It seems a lot like Pyenv, which has simplified a lot of problems for me. I installed with Homebrew instructions, but have two problems.

1/ When I try to install a package: When I choose "Install" in the RStudio Package tab, this pops up: "Would you like to create a personal library '/Users/davidlucey/Library/R/x86_64/4.2/library' to install packages into?". But then choosing "Yes" gives the same message again. Choosing "No" gives: "Unable to install packages (default library '/Users/davidlucey/Library/R/x86_64/4.2/library' is not writeable)". I did try running "rig system setup-user-lib", but that didn't fix it.

2/ Rig.app appears to start to launch, but then nothing happens and no error message.

sysname "Darwin" release "20.6.0" version "Darwin Kernel Version 20.6.0: Tue Apr 19 21:04:45 PDT 2022; root:xnu-7195.141.29~1/RELEASE_X86_64" nodename "david.local" machine "x86_64"
login "root" user "davidlucey" effective_user "davidlucey"

Fresh install of rig on MacOS 12.4 on Apple Silicon. Can't install any packages:

> install.packages("data.table")
Installing package into ‘/Users/abc/Library/R/arm64/4.2/library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages("data.table") :
  'lib = "/Users/abc/Library/R/arm64/4.2/library"' is not writable
Would you like to use a personal library instead? (yes/No/cancel) y
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/data.table_1.14.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 5301817 bytes (5.1 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 5.1 MB

Error: ERROR: no permission to install to directory ‘/Users/abc/Library/R/arm64/4.2/library’

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/private/var/folders/yx/zy96k6jn0w313_zbnc8v6ny00000gn/T/Rtmp53WMO0/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("data.table") :
  installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status
> 

Any hints?

After I ran rig add release on Windows, I still could not run R directly in CMD or Powershell. I thought rig system make-links would add C:\Program Files\R\bin into system PATH but it did not. Do I miss step here? Or is it needed to manually add R installation directory to PATH? Thanks!

I am working on Ubuntu 20.04

Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
Release:	20.04
Codename:	focal

I installed rig with:

curl -Ls https://github.com/r-lib/rig/releases/download/v0.4.1/rig-linux-0.4.1.tar.gz |
  sudo tar xz -C /usr/local

Then

rig add release

And I get this error: /opt/R/4.2.0/bin/R: ligne 193: /usr/bin/sed: No such file or directory Did I miss something ?

The full output is this one:

srochett@srochett-XPS-13-7390-2-in-1:~$ rig add release
[INFO] Running `sudo` for adding new R versions. This might need your password.
[INFO] r-4.2.0_1_amd64.deb is cached at
    /tmp/rig/r-4.2.0_1_amd64.deb
[INFO] Running apt-get update
--nnn-- Start of apt-get output -------------------
Atteint :1 http://repository.spotify.com stable InRelease
Atteint :2 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal InRelease                 
Atteint :3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/c2d4u.team/c2d4u4.0+/ubuntu focal InRelease
Atteint :4 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu focal-cran40/ InRelease
Atteint :5 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease            
Atteint :6 https://deb.nodesource.com/node_14.x focal InRelease                
Atteint :7 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease         
Atteint :8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nextcloud-devs/client/ubuntu focal InRelease
Atteint :9 http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports InRelease       
Atteint :10 http://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable InRelease          
Atteint :11 http://ppa.launchpad.net/obsproject/obs-studio/ubuntu focal InRelease
Atteint :12 http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu focal InRelease
Atteint :13 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/ms-teams stable InRelease     
Atteint :14 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease         
Atteint :15 https://packagecloud.io/slacktechnologies/slack/debian jessie InRelease
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
--uuu-- End of apt-get output ---------------------
[INFO] Running apt-get install
--nnn-- Start of apt-get output -------------------
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
gdebi-core est déjà la version la plus récente (0.9.5.7+nmu3).
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
--uuu-- End of apt-get output ---------------------
[INFO] Running gdebi
--nnn-- Start of gdebi output ---------------------
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
(Lecture de la base de données... 527256 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de /tmp/rig/r-4.2.0_1_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de r-4.2.0 (1) sur (1) ...
Paramétrage de r-4.2.0 (1) ...
--uuu-- End of gdebi output -----------------------
[INFO] Setting default CRAN mirror
[INFO] Setting up RSPM
[INFO] Setting up automatic system requirements installation.
[INFO] Installing pak for R 4.2.0 (if not installed yet)
/opt/R/4.2.0/bin/R: ligne 193: /usr/bin/sed: Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type
ERROR: option '-e' requires a non-empty argument
[ERROR] Failed to run R 4.2.0 to install pak

If I create the file before with correct rights like:

sudo touch /usr/bin/sed
sudo chmod 766 /usr/bin/sed

This still fails with option:

--uuu-- End of apt-get output ---------------------
[INFO] Running apt-get install
--nnn-- Start of apt-get output -------------------
Lecture des listes de paquets... Fait
Construction de l'arbre des dépendances       
Lecture des informations d'état... Fait
gdebi-core est déjà la version la plus récente (0.9.5.7+nmu3).
0 mis à jour, 0 nouvellement installés, 0 à enlever et 0 non mis à jour.
--uuu-- End of apt-get output ---------------------
[INFO] Running gdebi
--nnn-- Start of gdebi output ---------------------
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree        
Reading state information... Done
Reading state information... Done
(Lecture de la base de données... 527256 fichiers et répertoires déjà installés.)
Préparation du dépaquetage de /tmp/rig/r-4.2.0_1_amd64.deb ...
Dépaquetage de r-4.2.0 (1) sur (1) ...
Paramétrage de r-4.2.0 (1) ...
--uuu-- End of gdebi output -----------------------
[INFO] Setting default CRAN mirror
[INFO] Setting up RSPM
[INFO] Setting up automatic system requirements installation.
[INFO] Installing pak for R 4.2.0 (if not installed yet)
ERROR: option '-e' requires a non-empty argument
[ERROR] Failed to run R 4.2.0 to install pak

Deepin is a re-distro based on Debian, what works for Debian shall work for Deepin. Could rig support this OS?

$ rig add devel
[INFO] Running `sudo` for adding new R versions. This might need your password.
[ERROR] Unsupported distro: Deepin 20.6, only Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04 and Debian 9-11 are supported currently

Hi

Thanks for the great tool, I think this will make lots of people's lives easier 🎉 ! I have been playing around with getting two installations of the same R version to work. Probably a fairly niche thing so not suggesting you add it as a feature (unless there is demand) but thought I would post my solution in case it was helpful to anyone (and in case there are issues I haven't come across yet). My use case is to have two versions of R 4.2 installed, one with Bioconductor release (for analysis) and one with Bioconductor devel (for development) and to be able to switch between the two as needed.

These are the steps that worked for me on MacOS:

1. Install the desired R version.

rim install release

2. Rename the installed directory

mv /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2 /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-bioc

3. Modify the main R script so that all paths point to the new location

vim /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-bioc/Resources/bin/R

Search for all occurrences of the installed R version and modify them to match the new path (eg. change all 4.2 to 4.2-bioc)

4. Modify the base Renviron file to set the default user library path

vim /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.2-bioc/Resources/etc/Renviron

Find where R_LIBS_USER is set and modify it to point to the new installation directory.

R_LIBS_USER=${R_LIBS_USER:-'/Users/user/Library/R/x86_64/4.2-bioc/library'}

(I feel like there should be a way to do this without hard coding a path but haven't really looked into it)

5. Re-install the desired R version.

rim install release

After this I am able to switch between 4.2 and 4.2-bioc with both installations having .libPaths() correctly set to different directories. You probably lose the ability to make updates for new R versions but worth it for me to be able to easily switch between these two environments.

Thanks for all the hard work on this tool! The ability to name the installed versions of R while using the rig add command would be great. This would allow multiple installs of the same version. I was previously able to do this with R Switch. Rig already sort of does this when installing the arm64 version of R side by side with the x86 version.

It might look something like this:

rig list
* name                version    aliases
------------------------------------------
  4.1-seurat          (R 4.1.2)  
  4.1-spatial         (R 4.1.2)  
  4.1-spotlight       (R 4.1.2)  
  4.2                 (R 4.2.2)  release
* 4.2-arm64           (R 4.2.2)  
  4.2-bc4.15-spatial  (R 4.2.0)  

OS: macOS Monterey 12.5.1 Hardware: Macbook Pro 14 inch (Apple M1 Pro) RIG version: 0.5.1 (installed via Homebrew)

Symptoms: no menu bar when running open -a Rig or opening the Rig.app application. CLI tool seems to work fine, however.

Hello,

just installed and used rig for the first time. So please forgive me if I got something wrong :-).

During the installation process I had to press enter once, without any hint or question that was asking for it. I just noticed, because no progress was happening for a few minutes. Maybe I didn't get it right or it was coincidence that after pressing enter the process started printing messages again.

Here is the last output before I pressed enter

[INFO] >   linux-image-4.15.0-65-generic linux-modules-4.15.0-65-generic
[INFO] >   linux-modules-extra-4.15.0-65-generic
[INFO] > Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
[INFO] > The following additional packages will be installed:
[INFO] >   libopenblas-dev
[INFO] > The following NEW packages will be installed:
[INFO] >   libopenblas-dev r-4.2.1
[INFO] > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 343 not upgraded.
[INFO] > Need to get 3.860 kB/63,5 MB of archives.
[INFO] > After this operation, 150 MB of additional disk space will be used.

I am on Linux XXX 4.15.0-163-generic #171-Ubuntu SMP Fri Nov 5 11:55:11 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Thanks a lot!

Hi @r-lib Team!

This looks like a very very great solution for managing multiple versions of R on the same machine -- amazing! I was wondering, when might support for RHEL-based operating systems (e.g. Fedora, RHEL, etc.) be added to this tool? I would be more than happy to help with beta testing support if that could help move the needle along with adding support for RHEL-based OS's.

Thanks!

~ tcp :deciduous_tree:

Apologies in advance that I don't have simple reproducible example to include here.

Today I installed R 4.2.1 with rig for Windows using the "Latest" release link, and I am now experiencing an issue with the my secondary repos.

I use the RStudio RSPM repo to install CRAN packages, and I also have my institution's RSPM linked as well (called MSK_RSPM). These repos were setup before the installation, and appear to still be set up (see screengrab below)

The strange part is that when I open a fresh RStudio session, the repos are set to the CRAN cloud mirror, the RStudio RSPM is listed, but my MSK_RSPM is no where to be seen. I've removed it and added it back again...but it doesn't appear to be recognized by RStudio any longer.

R version 4.2.1 (2022-06-23 ucrt) -- "Funny-Looking Kid"
Copyright (C) 2022 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.
Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details.

R is a collaborative project with many contributors.
Type 'contributors()' for more information and
'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications.

Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or
'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help.
Type 'q()' to quit R.

> getOption("repos")
                                           RSPM                                            CRAN 
"https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/all/latest"                   "https://cloud.r-project.org" 

Thank you!

Current behavior, it took me longer than anticipated to come up with the necessary -a x86_64 switch:

➜  ~ rig resolve oldrel-3
[ERROR] Failed to resolve R version: Unknown version specification: oldrel-3
➜  ~ rig resolve 3.6
3.6.3 NA
➜  ~ rig install 3.6
[INFO] Running `sudo` for adding new R versions. This might need your password.
Password:
[ERROR] Cannot find a download url for R version 3.6.3, arm64
➜  ~ rig install 3.6-x86_64
[INFO] Running `sudo` for adding new R versions. This might need your password.
[ERROR] Failed to resolve R version: Unknown version specification: 3.6-x86_64
➜  ~ rig install 3.6 -a x86_64
[INFO] Running `sudo` for adding new R versions. This might need your password.
[INFO] x86_64-R-3.6.3.pkg is cached at /tmp/rig/x86_64-R-3.6.3.pkg

If I understand rig correctly, it works on the premise the entire system runs on the same R version correct?

So when I change the default, that will change it for all users?

At the moment I am working with a couple with others on an on-prem server. We want to use different R versions for different projects, and while rig is handy for installing them, we found the only way to set our own R version defaults was to create our own personal symlinks to the desired version in /opt/R and add them to our PATH. Kind of what rig is meant to do anyway?

Could there a mode where rig could set the default version on a per-user basis?

It would be great if there was an option that automatically opened the renv defined R version when opening a project from the menu bar item. Currently you can choose Default or a specific R version. Specifically, could there be another option that is something like 'renv or Default' which open the renv defined version if available - otherwise the Default version?

To simply list the installed "versions" (names), one per line. This would be helpful for scripting. Or maybe some more flexible --format that could include names, versions, locations, etc.

I'm on an Ubuntu derivative

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Pop
Description:	Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Release:	22.04
Codename:	jammy

When I install a new R version with rig, it's stuck in an interactive R session. I then need to type "enter" to see the prompt followed by q() to quit, another "enter" to see the prompt Save workspace image? [y/n/c]:.

That doesn't seem normal. Please let me know what more information you need to debug this.