Does not work inside RStudio

[raffaem]

If you open a script in RStudio, write library(lib) where lib is a library which is not installed, RStudio will prompt you to install it:

but if you click "Install", installation from source is triggered, not the R-CRAN-* packages.

[Enchufa2]

Yeap, this is a known issue. It works fine if you just call install.packages or update.packages manually, but RStudio apparently does its own thing when you click "Install" in that message, and bypasses our mechanism to intercept install.packages. Any clue on how this could work would be appreciated.

[raffaem]

I have opened a question on RCommunity

[Enchufa2]

This is a current limitation: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/10945. Unless RStudio allows the system settings to be loaded in the child process, unfortunately there's nothing we can do.

[kendonB]

I find that install.packages also does not work in RStudio - I get the cannot connect to the system package manager error. Works fine running R in the terminal.

[raffaem]

I find that install.packages also does not work in RStudio - I get the cannot connect to the system package manager error. Works fine running R in the terminal.

I think this is a very different issue than what's discussed here

[Enchufa2]

Yes, it's definitely a different issue. Please see closed issues, and open a new one with more details if that didn't solve your problem.

[Enchufa2]

This has been addressed in https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/pull/12176 and listed for the next release of RStudio.

[Enchufa2]

And working since release 2022.12.0.