search

posit-dev / positron

Positron, a next-generation data science IDE
Other
2.48k stars 77 forks source link

Look on the PATH to discover R installations on Windows #3702

Closed jmcphers closed 1 month ago

jmcphers commented 3 months ago

Followup from https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/discussions/3677.

Positron enumerates the registry to find R on Windows, which successfully discovers R installations that were installed in the traditional way (i.e. with the R installer). However, it's common on Windows to manually install R someplace else and put it on the $PATH.

This corresponds to this TODO:

https://github.com/posit-dev/positron/blob/c929d52f6635bd35e6fa773e3b397fde32f53097/extensions/positron-r/src/provider.ts#L340-L341

jonvanausdeln commented 1 month ago

Verified Fixed

Positron Version(s) : 2024.08.0-5 OS Version(s) : Windows 11

Test scenario(s)

Verified on a normal user account (non-admin) with R installed in several non-standard locations.

Before adding to PATH, no R versions discovered. After adding to PATH, all were discovered.

Also verified with admin account. And local user PATH vs system PATH.

Link(s) to TestRail test cases run or created: