RStudio not loading project with rig 0.5.0 with renv

[PMassicotte]

I installed the latest version of rig (0.5.0). When using rig rstudio renv.lock, it opens RStudio with the proper version of R registered in the renv lock file. However, the project is not loaded. Hopefully, this animated GIF clearly shows the issue.

Please let me know if I can provide further details.

Thank you in advance,
Phil

[gaborcsardi]

So should rig use the .Rproj file that is in the same directory as renv.lock? Is it possible to have multiple .Rproj files in that directory?

[vitallish]

Hi just ran into this as well - I agree it should open the rstudio project file in that folder. Alternatively to be more explicit you could allow passing a separate argument for the project file.

[gaborcsardi]

Seems like Rstudio behaves differently in different OSes:

Correction:

• RStudio >= 2023.06.0 works well on all OSes.
• RStudio <= 2022.07.2 works well on Windows and macOS, but not on Linux (Ubuntu 20.04).
• I could not find a fix for the RStudio versions that do not work.

I'll document that rig works best with RStudio >= 2023.06.0.