rig 0.7.0

• 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 directories.

• New rig available --list-rtools-versions option to list available
  Rtools versions.

• rig run now does not terminate the rig process on interrupts
  (CTRL+C, CTRL+BREAK on Windows, SIGINT on Unix) (#187).

• Windows: new rig system rtools subcommand to add, remove, list
  Rtools versions (#18).

• Windows: rig now supports Rtools44 on Windows.

• Windows: rig now defaults to Rtools42 for R 4.2.x on Windows.

• macOS: rig rstudio <version> works again on recent macOS versions (#208).

• macOS: rig now always creates the /usr/local/bin/R-* quick links
  with 0755 permissions (#200).

• Linux: rig add --without-p3m works again (#193).

• Linux: RIG_PLATFORM works again when sudo is needed (#191).

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Currently this is version 0.7.0

rig 0.6.1 (prerelease)

v0.6.1pre

Prepare for 0.6.1 pre-release

rig 0.6.0

• rig now supports RPM based distros, in addition to Debian and Ubuntu (#28).
  The full list of supported distros, on x86_64 and aarch64:

  • 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 7,
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9,
  • AlmaLinux 8, 9,
  • Rocky Linux 8, 9.
    See also the new rig available --list-distros.

• New rig available command to list R versions available to install.
  rig available --list-distros lists the supported Linux distributions.

• New rig run to run R, an R script or an R project, using the selected
  R version (#161).

• rig now works in a shell that is a subprocess or R, e.g. in the
  RStudio terminal (#127).

• rig now works behind a proxy, on macOS and Linux, if the https_proxy
  environment variable is set (#166).

• rig resolve now has a --platform and a --arch arguments, to look up
  available R versions for any supported platform, instead of the current
  one.

• rig ls --plain lists only the R version names, this is useful in
  shell scripts (#128).

• rig rstudio now starts RStudio with the correct working directory
  and project (#139, #100).

• macOS: rig add now only changes the permission for the R version
  that it is installing (#109).

• Windows: rig rstudio now starts the correct R version, even with newer
  RStudio versions (#134).

• Windows: rig now works in PowerShell 7.

• Windows: the rig installer now does not create shortcut in the start
  menu (#160).

• Linux and macOS: rig now keeps the locales when switching to the root
  user, so e.g. the language does not change (#138).

• Linux: rig now works properly in Oh My Zsh (#125).

• Linux: rig now works around a missing /usr/bin/sed that happened
  on some distros (#119).

• Linux: rig now does not fail if the default R version was deleted (#124).

• Linux: new subcommand rig system detect-platform to print the detected
  Linux distribution and configuration.

• Linux: You can now set the RIG_PLATFORM environment variable to
  override the auto-detected Linux distriution. E.g.
  RIG_PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04 will force Ubuntu 22.04.

• Linux: rig now comes with a CA certificate bundle, so it works without
  system certificates. If you prefer not to use it, set the SSL_CERT_FILE
  environment variable to point to your preferred CA bundle (#176).

rig 0.5.99

• rig now supports RPM based distros, in addition to Deboan and Ubuntu (#28).
  The full list of supported distros, on x86_64 and aarch64:

  • 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 7,
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9,
  • AlmaLinux 8, 9,
  • Rocky Linux 8, 9.
    See also the new rig available --list-distros.

• New rig available command to list R versions available to install.
  rig available --list-distros lists the supported Linux distributions.

• New rig run to run R, an R script or an R project, using the selected
  R version (#161).

• rig now works in a shell that is a subprocess or R, e.g. in the
  RStudio terminal (#127).

• rig now works behind a proxy, on macOS and Linux, if the https_proxy
  environment variable is set (#166).

• rig resolve now has a --platform and a --arch arguments, to look up
  available R versions for any supported platform, instead of the current
  one.

• rig ls --plain lists only the R version names, this is useful in
  shell scripts (#128).

• rig rstudio now starts RStudio with the correct working directory
  and project (#139, #100).

• macOS: rig add now only changes the permission for the R version
  that it is installing (#109).

• Windows: rig rstudio now starts the correct R version, even with newer
  RStudio versions (#134).

• Windows: rig now works in PowerShell 7.

• Windows: the rig installer now does not create shortcut in the start
  menu (#160).

• Linux and macOS: rig now keeps the locales when switching to the root
  user, so e.g. the language does not change (#138).

• Linux: rig now works properly in Oh My Zsh (#125).

• Linux: rig now works around a missing /usr/bin/sed that happened
  on some distros (#119).

• Linux: rig now does not fail if the default R version was deleted (#124).

• Linux: new subcommand rig system detect-platform to print the detected
  Linux distribution and configuration.

• Linux: You can now set the RIG_PLATFORM environment variable to
  override the auto-detected Linux distriution. E.g.
  RIG_PLATFORM=ubuntu-22.04 will force Ubuntu 22.04.

• Linux: rig now comes with a CA certificate bundle, so it works without
  system certificates. If you prefer not to use it, set the SSL_CERT_FILE
  environment variable to point to your preferred CA bundle (#176).

rig 0.5.3

• 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
  is already installed.

rig 0.5.3 (pre-release)

• 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 v0.5.2

• rig now always runs non-interactively on Linux from a root shell (#117).
• rig now always uses --vanilla when running R (#120).
• rig now detects Deepin Linux as Debian (#111).

rig 0.5.1

• rig now prints output from apt, etc. like regular logging output on Linux.

• rig now supports the alises oldrel, release, next, devel in
  rig default, rig rm, rig rstudio, etc. (#108).

rig 0.5.0

• rig can now open renv projects in RStudio, with the correct R version.
  Pass the renv lock file to rig: rig rstudio .../renv.lock (#74).

• rig list now prints the result as a table, and it prints the R version
  number as well. rig list --json includes the version number, the path
  to the installation, and the path to the R binary.

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

• On macOS and Linux rig add now creates the user library with the right
  permissions, if it does not exist and pak is installed (#84).

• rig add now correctly installs pak into the user library, instead of
  the system library, even if the user library did not exist before.

Windows

• On Windows, rig add ... --without-translations installs R without
  message translations. This is useful if you prefer using R in
  English on a non-English system (#88).

• On Windows rig add does not add a Desktop icon now by default.
  If want an icon, use the new --with-desktop-icon switch (#89).

• On Windows, if the default version is deleted, rig updates the
  registry accordingly, and removes the default from there as well (#86).

• New subcommand rig system update-rtools40 updates MSYS2 packages
  of Rtools40 on Windows (#14).

macOS

• On macOS rig add now does not fail if it is started from an x86_64
  shell, when adding an arm64 R version on M1 Macs (#79).

• On macOS, rig rstudio <ver> now errors if R <ver> is not orthogonal,
  and the menu bar app errors as well (#90).