Hi Tiffany, On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Tiffany Timbers <[email protected]> wrote: > I have been using Anaconda as package/environment manager for my Python > version and packages, but this has led to my Bash Shell using the Anaconda > version of R when I run Rscripts, and not the version of R I use in RStudio > when I develop. This is something I don't want to happen, I want the command > line to access the same version of R and R packages as I have installed via > RStudio. I prefer to manage R and R package versions and installation in R > because I can get more recent versions of R and R packages via RStudio > compared to using conda.
Which version of Anaconda did you install? I have version 2.2.0 installed, and R is not automatically included. If you didn't install R with conda, maybe a program you installed via conda listed R as a dependency? The current version is 2.5.0, so maybe this is a new feature? > I have tried several things to fix this. For example, specifying the PATH in > .bash_profile to be the R version I wanted to use didn't work unless I > removed the PATH to Anaconda, but then I can't use conda to manage Python. > The only thing I could do to fix this was to delete the R and Rscript that > Anaconda installed. I don't think this fix is optimal, is there a better way > to deal with this? If you are not using the R/Rscript provided by conda, I do not see the problem of uninstalling them with `conda remove`. The only potential issue I could foresee is that a package you downloaded with conda may require a specific version of R. But as long as the R version you have installed is > 3.0, I would doubt there would be an issue. > Also, this may be something we need to think about when people who develop > in R routinely and use Rscripts, come to a Software Carpentry workshop to > learn Python and install Anaconda. Doing this will change the version of R > and R packages that they can now access from the command line (unless my > experience here is unique). So we in effect, in some cases our installation > might be breaking some of their working tools... Installing Anaconda will break the current R installation only if the latest versions install R/Rscript by default. After taking a quick look at the change log and the list of included packages, I do not think this is happening. http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/changelog http://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/pkg-docs Hopefully that was helpful. Please let me know if I my understanding of the latest version of Anaconda is incorrect. John _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
