rig 0.4.2

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

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 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).

rig 0.3.1 pre-release

This is a pre-release, so we can start testing the macOS menu bar app, and also start using the new name.

Use the installers on macOS and Windows.

To install on Linux run:

curl -Ls https://github.com/r-lib/rig/releases/download/v0.3.1pre/rig-linux-0.3.1.tar.gz |
  sudo tar xz -C /usr/local

On arm64 Linux run:

curl -Ls https://github.com/r-lib/rig/releases/download/v0.3.1pre/rig-linux-arm64-0.3.1.tar.gz |
  sudo tar xz -C /usr/local

macOS menu bar app

The macOS .pkg files also include a menu bar app, which you can start as

open -a Rig

Once it is running, you can set Preferences... -> Launch at login to auto-start it in the future.

Multiple user package libraries

rig now supports creating multiple user package libraries, and switching between them. See rig library --help for details.

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 v0.2.3

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

rim v0.2.2

• 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.

v0.2.1

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.

v0.2.0

• 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.

v0.1.5

rim now has an experimental Windows version.