Renv: environement/version management for R

About Renv

Renv lets you be able to install multiple R versions and choose which to use globally or per-project.

Usage, tutorial and source and be found at its github. Here’s some additional hints.

• When you add Renv to your path, the code given at the page above may not work, because your linux may not use .bash_profile, though this is common case. How to add it to your path depends on your linux, probably .profile if .bash_profile dose not work.

• R-build is an Renv plugin that provides an Renv install command to compile and install different versions of R on UNIX-like systems.

  You can also use R-build without Renv in environments where you need precise control over R version installation.

  Again follow the official tutorial here.

• If you need your Renv R versions work with RStudio, you need to provide --enable-R-shlib option to ./config. If you are using R-build, you can set an environemnt named CONFIGURE_OPTS to provide additional configuration options.

It might not be so amazing as to have virtualenv with Python, but it helps when you need multiple R versions, or some packages of a pecific version.