Quarto does not work in RStudio on Windows ARM64

Eric_Best · December 21, 2022, 8:57pm

I have not seen this specific issue mentioned and I had a student issue in a course that I am able to replicate on the Windows Dev Kit 2023. Installing recent versions of R and RStudio on a Windows ARM64 system (R 4.2.2 and RStudio 2022.12.0 Build 353) and attempting to render in Quarto does not work and returns the "Unable to locate an installed version of R" message.

quarto check returns an R installation of (None).

I know there are workarounds for this, but as a teacher it would be a huge student confidence booster if this worked from a fresh download of R and RStudio.

andresrcs · December 21, 2022, 9:19pm

Neither RStudio nor Quarto supports Windows ARM64, but maybe if enough people show interest in this architecture they might consider supporting it (they recently agreed to support Linux arm64 distros on future RStudio releases). Though, the best venue to present this request is the GitHub repository for each tool.

jonathan · December 21, 2022, 11:24pm

There are also existing issues on these -- please comment/upvote to show interest to help the development teams prioritize!

github.com/rstudio/rstudio

Add builds for Windows on ARM, for Surface Pro X / Surface Pro 9 / etc.

opened 09:54PM - 19 Sep 22 UTC

jmcphers

enhancement windows

RStudio is built for Windows only for Intel (x86) processors. However, there is …now a version of Windows 11 available for ARM based processors: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewARM64 The Surface Pro X from Microsoft is ARM Windows based, and the rumor is that the Surface Pro 9 will be offered in an ARM configuration: https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/microsoft-to-merge-surface-pro-x-and-surface-pro-9-under-one-product-line-this-fall This has lead to a lot of people asking whether they can use R and RStudio on their ARM based Windows devices, e.g.: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/all/install-r-studio-on-my-surface-pro-x-is-it/5aa14f69-e1ce-4d00-89bb-e3ee62e1db89 https://www.reddit.com/r/RStudio/comments/xgk9vc/rrstudio_on_windows_on_arm/ In addition, having an ARM based RStudio release for Windows would be useful to the RStudio development team, who often do development on Apple Silicon machines, where it is necessary to use ARM based virtual machines for Windows development.

system · January 11, 2023, 11:25pm

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