NEWS.md

rig 0.8.1 (not released yet)

• The RIG_PLATFORM environment variable works correctly again (#325).

• rig can now install R > 4.6.0 (current R-devel) correctly on macOS.

rig 0.8.0

• New rig repos subcommand to manage R package repository setup across all installed R versions.

• The --without-p3m option of rig add is now always available, for consistency across platforms. By default P3M is on on x86_64 Windows and supported Linux distros, as before. The new --with-p3m option turns on P3M on macOS as well.

• rig now supports aarch64 Windows. It currently only supports installing aarch64 builds of R and Rtools on aarch64 Windows. The x86_64 build of rig also works on aarch64 Windows and installs aarch64 builds of R and Rtools. Installing and managing x86_64 builds of R on aarch64 Windows is not supported yet.

• rig now supports RHEL 10 and binary compatible distributions like AlmaLinux OS 10 and Rocky Linux 10.

• R installations by rig now do not set the default CRAN repositories in RStudio and Positron (#203).

• rig now supports the new macOS arm64 Sonoma builds, which are are the default CRAN builds starting from R 4.6.0 (current R-devel).

rig 0.7.1

• macOS packages now include completion files for elvish and fish shells (#221, @TymekDev).

• rig available --list-distros output now includes PPM support, whether the a distro is retired, the EOL and in the JSON format also the last R version for that distro.

• rig add is now better at detecting PPM support for new Linux distribution versions. In particular, new Linux distribution releases do not need a rig update to learn about PPM support. Relatedly, rig system detect-platform now does not report PPM support. Use rig available --list-distros to see which Linux distributions have PPM binaries.

• rig run now exits with the exit code of the R process (#261).

• Custom certificates via the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable work again (#227).

• rig library default does not crash now (#240).

• rig now uses a better way to get the user's home directory, that works on systems without an /etc/passwd database (#228).

• Windows: rig supports Rtools45 now.

rig 0.7.0

• Bash completions work well again (#202).

• rig rstudio has a new implementation that works much better. Now it always defaults to the R version in renv.lock for renv projects, and can open RStudio projects or directories.

• New rig available --list-rtools-versions option to list available Rtools versions.

• rig run now does not terminate the rig process on interrupts (CTRL+C, CTRL+BREAK on Windows, SIGINT on Unix) (#187).

• Windows: new rig system rtools subcommand to add, remove, list Rtools versions (#18).

• Windows: rig now supports Rtools44 on Windows.

• Windows: rig now defaults to Rtools42 for R 4.2.x on Windows.

• macOS: rig rstudio <version> works again on recent macOS versions (#208).

• macOS: rig now always creates the /usr/local/bin/R-* quick links with 0755 permissions (#200).

• Linux: rig add --without-p3m works again (#193).

• Linux: RIG_PLATFORM works again when sudo is needed (#191).

rig 0.6.0

• rig now supports RPM based distros, in addition to Debian and Ubuntu (#28). The full list of supported distros, on x86_64 and aarch64:

  • Debian 10, 11, 12,
  • Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04, 22.04,
  • Fedora Linux 37, 38,
  • OpenSUSE 15.3, 15.4,
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 SP3, SP4,
  • CentOS 7,
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9,
  • AlmaLinux 8, 9,
  • Rocky Linux 8, 9. See also the new rig available --list-distros.

• New rig available command to list R versions available to install. rig available --list-distros lists the supported Linux distributions.

• New rig run to run R, an R script or an R project, using the selected R version (#161).

• rig now works in a shell that is a subprocess or R, e.g. in the RStudio terminal (#127).

• rig now works behind a proxy, on macOS and Linux, if the https_proxy environment variable is set (#166).

• rig resolve now has a --platform and a --arch arguments, to look up available R versions for any supported platform, instead of the current one.

• rig ls --plain lists only the R version names, this is useful in shell scripts (#128).

• rig rstudio now starts RStudio with the correct working directory and project (#139, #100).

• macOS: rig add now only changes the permission for the R version that it is installing (#109).

• Windows: rig rstudio now starts the correct R version, even with newer RStudio versions (#134).

• Windows: rig now works in PowerShell 7.

• Windows: the rig installer now does not create shortcut in the start menu (#160).

• Linux and macOS: rig now keeps the locales when switching to the root user, so e.g. the language does not change (#138).

• Linux: rig now works properly in Oh My Zsh (#125).

• Linux: rig now works around a missing /usr/bin/sed that happened on some distros (#119).

• Linux: rig now does not fail if the default R version was deleted (#124).

• Linux: new subcommand rig system detect-platform to print the detected Linux distribution and configuration.

• Linux: You can now set the RIG_PLATFORM environment variable to override the auto-detected Linux distriution. E.g. RIG_PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04 will force Ubuntu 22.04.

• Linux: rig now comes with a CA certificate bundle, so it works without system certificates. If you prefer not to use it, set the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable to point to your preferred CA bundle (#176).

rig 0.5.3

• rig can now install x86_64 R 4.3.0 and later on macOS.

• rig now does a better job when resolving R versions.

• rig now supports Rtools43 on Windows.

• rig now does not try to reinstall Rtools if the same version is already installed.

rig 0.5.2

• rig now always runs non-interactively on Linux from a root shell (#117).

• rig now always uses --vanilla when running R (#120).

• rig now detects Deepin Linux as Debian (#111).

rig 0.5.1

• rig now prints output from apt, etc. like regular logging output on Linux.

• rig now supports the alises oldrel, release, next, devel in rig default, rig rm, rig rstudio, etc. (#108).

rig 0.5.0

• rig can now open renv projects in RStudio, with the correct R version. Pass the renv lock file to rig: rig rstudio .../renv.lock (#74).

• rig list now prints the result as a table, and it prints the R version number as well. rig list --json includes the version number, the path to the installation, and the path to the R binary.

• rig is now more robust when setting up the user library. In particular R will not fail to start in renv projects (#81, @krlmlr).

• On macOS and Linux rig add now creates the user library with the right permissions, if it does not exist and pak is installed (#84).

• rig add now correctly installs pak into the user library, instead of the system library, even if the user library did not exist before.

Windows

• On Windows, rig add ... --without-translations installs R without message translations. This is useful if you prefer using R in English on a non-English system (#88).

• On Windows rig add does not add a Desktop icon now by default. If want an icon, use the new --with-desktop-icon switch (#89).

• On Windows, if the default version is deleted, rig updates the registry accordingly, and removes the default from there as well (#86).

• New subcommand rig system update-rtools40 updates MSYS2 packages of Rtools40 on Windows (#14).

macOS

• On macOS rig add now does not fail if it is started from an x86_64 shell, when adding an arm64 R version on M1 Macs (#79).

• On macOS, rig rstudio <ver> now errors if R <ver> is not orthogonal, and the menu bar app errors as well (#90).

rig 0.4.1

• rig rstudio <version> and rig rstudio <version> <project> work properly again (#77).

• On Windows, rig rstudio now properly restores the default version after starting RStudio, if a non-default version was specified.

rig 0.4.0

NEW NAME

rim is now known as rig.

New features

• Experimental multi-library support. See rig library --help for the details.

• On macOS rig now includes a menu bar app that show the default R version, lets you choose between R versions and libraries, and lets you start RStudio with a specific R version, and/or a recent RStudio project. Start the app with open -a Rig.

• New subcommand rig system setup-user-lib to update the R config to create the user package library when R starts up, if it does not exist. The old rig system create-lib subcommand is now an alias of this.

• Better messages. rig has a -v and -vv flag now, for extra debug and trace messages.

• On arm64 macOS, rig add installs arm64 R by default now. (This is also true for the x86_64 build of rig.

• On macOS rig add does not change the default R version any more (#2).

• rig now supports Linux distros based on Ubuntu Bionic 18.04, Focal 20.04 and Jammy 22.04. They need to have a proper UBUNTU_CODENAME entry in /etc/os-release (#34).

• rig now sets up automated system requirements installation with pak on Linux distributions that support it: Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04 (on distros based on these), on both x86_64 and aarch64. (This currently needs passwordless sudo or a root account.)

• All OSes create an Rscript link now that runs the default R version (#20).

rim 0.3.0

• New rim rstudio command to open a project in RStudio with the specified R version.

• rim add now performs additonal tasks, to give you an R installation that is ready to use:

  • It installs pak for the newly added R version, it is wasn't installed before. You can opt out of this with the --without-pak option. You can select the pak version to install with --pak-version.

  • Sets the default R version after installation to the newly installed version, if no default is set.

  • Sets the default CRAN mirror to the cloud mirror in the system profile, after installation (#11).

  • Sets up RStudio Package Manager (RSPM) as the default repository, if your system is supported. See https://packagemanager.rstudio.com for more about RSPM. The systems that are supported by both RSPM and rim are Windows, and Ubuntu Linux 18.04, 20.04 and 22.04, all of them on x86_64 architectures only (#15).

• rim add now only caches downloaded files for a day.

• rim system add-pak now has a new option --pak-version to specify the pak version to install (stable, rc or devel). Its --devel option is now deprecated.

• rim list now marks the default R version (if any) with (default) (#38).

Windows

• rim has a Chocolatey package now, so on Windows you can install it with choco install rim and upgrade it with choco upgrade rim.

• On Windows rim default <version> now sets the default R version in the Windows Registry as well, which changes the default for RStudio. (Make sure you set the R version in RStudio to the machine's default version in Tools -> Global Options -> Basic -> General -> R version.)

macOS

• On macOS rim system fix-permissions now sets the permissions and group of the Current link. Also, rim add now calls rim system fix-permissions for all installed R versions, because the R installed changes the permissions of all of them.

rim 0.2.3

• rim system allow-debugger and rim system allow-core-dumps now work on macOS Big Sur.

rim 0.2.2

• rim now supports the next version of R:

  rim resolve next
  rim add next
  

  The next version of R is R-alpha, R-beta, R-rc or R-prerelease if there is an active R release process, and it is R-patched otherwise.

rim 0.2.1

Linux

• rim now supports arm64 Linux, currently the following distributions: Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 & 22.04 and Debian 9, 10 & 11.

• rim now supports Debian 11, on arm64 and x86_64.

macOS

• New macOS rim system commands to allow debugging: rim system allow-debugger; and to allow core dumps: rim system allow-core-dumps.

• rim now uses better R-devel URLs on macOS, that do not fail if the daily build failed on mac.r-project.org.

Windows

• rim now supports Rtools42 on Windows: rim add rtools42.

• Fix resolution of older Windows installers, they were moved to another URL.

• rim can now delete Rtools on Windows, e.g.: rim rm rtools42.

rim 0.2.0

• New Linux version.

• On macOS rim now asks for your password for tasks that require admin access.

• On Windows rim now automatically elevates to administrator privileges as needed, by re-running with gsudo. gsudo is now bundled in the Windows distribution.

• New rim system clean-registry command to remove leftover Windows registry entries

• New rim system no-openmp to use the Apple compilers on macOS.

• rim rm now cleans the registry on Windows.

• The Windows rim installer adds rim and R to the PATH on GitHub Actions.

• rim list does not error any more if no R versions are installed.

• macOS now has rim system no-openmp to fix the conpiler configurations for the Apple compilers.

rim 0.1.5

• Experimental Windows version.

rim 0.1.4

• resolve and add work again.

rim 0.1.3

• bash and zsh completions out of the box, on macOS

• You can now pass URLs .pkg installers to rim add on macOS.

rim 0.1.2

• rim ls is now a synonym of rim list.

• We have macOS installers now, and they are signed and notarized.

rim 0.1.1

• `rim rm now supports removing multiple versions.

• rim system commands create-lib, fix-permissions and make-orthogonal can be now restricted to one or more R versions. rim add now only calls them for the newly installed R version.

• rim system add-pak is now implemented.

rim 0.1.0

First pre-release.