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The R Installation Manager

Install with winget
winget install --id Posit.rig
Upgrade
winget upgrade --id Posit.rig
Uninstall
winget uninstall --id Posit.rig

About rig

Install, remove, configure R versions.

What's new in 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).

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Version history

Version Updated Notes
0.8.0 Unknown - 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 x8...
0.7.1 Unknown - 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...
0.7.0 Unknown - 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 directori...
0.6.0 Unknown - rig now supports RPM based distros, in addition to Deboan and Ubuntu (#28). - 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...
0.5.3 Unknown - 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