RStudio Install from source prompt?

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Hi,

I feel like this is probably something obvious but thus far google and forum searches have turned up empty. Previously when using Update button in RStudio to update packages there would be a prompt if package did not have binary version and therefore to install fully it needed to be installed from source. However, lately I've noticed that this prompt doesn't come up. When you click update button again the packages are still listed and selecting them just again leads to installation of the latest binary version and not option to install via source compilation.

To be clear installation and compilation from source works just fine if I manually provide type = source to install.packages command. So this is small issue but convenience missing nonetheless.

Thanks very much to anyone who might have idea what is going on!
Best,
Sam

RStudio Version 2024.12.0+467 (2024.12.0+467)
R version 4.4.0 (2024-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Monterey 12.7.5

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Any chance the prompt is showing, but is behind the main RStudio window? I think I've encountered that, though can't reproduce at the moment.

In any case, would you mind opening an issue?

Thanks!

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When did it previously work as expected for you? It has been more than a year for me on three different macOS computers, both Apple Silicon and Intel.

The same thing happens with install.packages() in the R.app GUI.

It would be nice to have the option of using pak() instead of install.packages().