RStudio missing Quarto in Fedora RPM

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Same problem. I have just followed the following links on action to deal with it from here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2162538

I’m not a developer and may have misunderstood.

My understanding is that:

  1. Fedora disables quarto in its package for R Studio and cannot change that (because too hard to deal with Dart SAAS and Dino)

  2. rstudio started fixing it by searching for a user installed Quarto when the Quarto it normally bundles is not there.

  3. But this has been moved to a low priority backlog-2 list that is 6% complete with 192 open issues and 13 closed.

  4. Possibly the issue will remain unfixed because of misunderstanding on June 8 that was not corrected following an explanation on June 14:

  1. I am not competent to clear that up.

  2. Hopefully there is a simple work around.

  3. I was able to install Quarto to ~/.quarto instead of /opt by modifying the instructions at:

  1. Also ran successful check and produced html and docx output including plot that used jupyter, matplotlib and plotly using gedit to write the hello.qmd file here:

  1. Rendering to pdf failed with existing Fedora TeX installation so I (later) also installed TinyTeX, which worked.

  2. I only need R Studio for the Quarto Visual Editor, which depends on knitr and Rmarkdown and could also have provided the TinyTeX which I ended up installing from Quarto.

  3. Just typing rstudio offered to install rstudio-desktop which I accepted.

The following packages have to be installed:
clang-16.0.5-1.fc38.x86_64 A C language family front-end for LLVM
clang-devel-16.0.5-1.fc38.x86_64 Development header files for clang
clang-tools-extra-16.0.5-1.fc38.x86_64 Extra tools for clang
glyphography-newscycle-fonts-0.5.2-10.fc38.noarch A realist sans-serif font family based on News Gothic
llvm-16.0.5-1.fc38.x86_64 The Low Level Virtual Machine
rstudio-2023.06.0+421-1.fc38.x86_64 RStudio base package
rstudio-desktop-2023.06.0+421-1.fc38.x86_64 Integrated development environment for the R programming language
soci-4.0.3-3.fc38.x86_64 The database access library for C++ programmers
soci-postgresql-4.0.3-3.fc38.x86_64 PostGreSQL back-end for soci
soci-sqlite3-4.0.3-3.fc38.x86_64 SQLite3 back-end for soci
yaml-cpp-0.7.0-3.fc38.x86_64 A YAML parser and emitter for C++
Proceed with changes? [N/y] y

  1. So it proceeded with log to ‘/home/admin/.local/share/rstudio/log/rdesktop.log’

warnings about /usr/include/R missing.

  1. Within RStudio I used the Tools/Install packages… menu to produce .Rhistory:

install.packages(“knitr”)
install.packages(“rmarkdown”)
install.packages(“tinytex”)
install.packages(“quarto”)

  1. I kept the terminal logs which I don’t understand except that this theme seemed quite salient in all four failures:

Warning: R include directory is empty – perhaps need to install R-devel.rpm or similar

dnf list R-devel
…
Available Packages
R-devel.i686 4.3.1-1.fc38 updates
R-devel.x86_64 4.3.1-1.fc38 updates

  1. So I found my way to:

https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/fedora/

which I don’t really understand well enough to be confident about what to do next.

  1. My first guess is:

dnf install R-devel.x86_64

then try again to install knitr and rmarkdown within Rstudio.

But I expect that not to work since still need Fedora RStudio to know about Quarto

  1. My second guess is

Download Fedora 36 version despite being on Fedora 38 from:

https://download1.rstudio.org/electron/rhel9/x86_64/rstudio-2023.06.1-524-x86_64.rpm

The downloaded file is 208.6 MB and not .rpm

rstudio-2023.06.1-524-x86_64-fedora.tar.gz

Extracting its contents does not immediately show me a file that tells me what to do with it and whether I need an R-devel.rpm or where to get one.

Hopefully that was built by them and bundles Quattro while also fitting in to the rest of Fedora 38 despite being built for Fedora 36?

There are several hundred source repositories at:

dnf remove rstudio-desktop {unsure what to do about any debris left over}

  1. Third guess is follow up on suggestion to use:

But that looks intimidating too.

  1. Please provide a short simple instruction for non developer end user to install Posit version of R Studio with working Quarto Visual Editor on Fedora 38.

  2. My draft is:

mv rstudio-2023.06.1-524-x86_64-fedora/rstudio-2023.06.1-524-x86_64 ~/.rstudio
ln -s ~/.rstudio/rstudio ~/.local/bin/rstudio

Then

sudo dnf remove rstudio-desktop
rm -r ~/.quarto

Then figure out how to make a desktop icon and hope it all just works.

Please advise.