R plugin for asdf version manager.

• Mac
  1. Homebrew: used to install the remainder of the dependencies
  2. brew install --cask xquartz
  3. brew install gcc xz bzip2 pcre2
  4. See the note below
• Linux
  • Ubuntu / Debian
    1. sudo apt-get install build-essential libcurl3-dev libreadline-dev gfortran libbz2-dev liblzma-dev libpcre3 libpcre3-dev

After installing the other dependencies, you may need to modify your environment a bit in order to pick up the dependencies from homebrew.

# Set bzip2 binary and compile paths
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/bzip2/bin:$PATH"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/bzip2/include $CPPFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/bzip2/lib $LDFLAGS"

# Set pcre2 binary and compile paths
export PATH="/usr/local/opt/pcre2/bin:$PATH"
export CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/local/opt/pcre2/include $CPPFLAGS"
export LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/opt/pcre2/lib $LDFLAGS"

asdf plugin-add R https://github.com/iroddis/asdf-R.git

Check asdf readme for instructions on how to install & manage versions of R.

When installing R using asdf install, you can pass custom configure options with the following env vars:

• R_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS - use only your configure options
• R_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS - append these configure options along with ones that this plugin already uses

RStudio requires building R shared library, in order to do that pass an extra configure option to asdf install:

R_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS=--enable-R-shlib asdf install R <version>

Thanks to asdf-postgres for providing an awesome plugin that was easy to modify for this language.