Hi;
My laptop is doing something weird. I have noticed in the last two weeks that my R version self-install automatically. I was running 4.5.3 and one day I saw 4.6.1. I went ahead and deleted the newest version because it was breaking my scripts and the next day it got reinstalled again. I read that Rstudio could be auto-updating to the new version of R automatically. Has anyone here have experienced the same thing? I will appreciate any insight as this is driving nuts. Thanks
It would probably help others to help you if you could provide few more details about your system. E.g. the operating system you are using, how is your R installation managed (I can think of several methods on Windows alone, in addition to manually running official CRAN-distributed installer) and is there an IT team (of your org) involved who manages your laptop and can push silent updates?
I can't see it being related to RStudio. Though, assuming an update strategy that does not automatically remove previous R versions, you can configure RStudio to use a specific R version instead of system's default, at least on Windows:
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It is a government computer and managed by IT folks. However, I have been using R for over 15 years under the same government agency and I never had this problem until recently. I am using Windows 11. I talked to the IT personnel and they can't figure it out either. The only thing I had installed on my machine a few months ago was some software called Intune. Not sure if this program is the culprit or not. Thanks for checking into it.
RStudio does not update the R installation, ever. It does not have such a feature.
Intune is Microsoft software used to manage software on corporate networks, so it's quite possible it could be the culprit here, you'd have to check with your IT department.