I can’t seem to start an environment for R as that checkbox won’t click. Is it greyed out? I can’t tell. I only know that it won’t click. Also doesn’t work from the command line:
rich@beppu.local> conda install -c r r
Channels:
- r
- defaults
Platform: osx-arm64
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed
PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:
Current channels:
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- defaults
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you’re
looking for, navigate to
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and use the search bar at the top of the page.
Nor does this work from the online doc. Looks like the same problem, maybe?
rich@beppu.local> conda create -n newer r-essentials r-base
Channels:
- defaults
Platform: osx-arm64
Collecting package metadata (repodata.json): done
Solving environment: failed
PackagesNotFoundError: The following packages are not available from current channels:
Current channels:
- defaults
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To search for alternate channels that may provide the conda package you’re
looking for, navigate to
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
and use the search bar at the top of the page.
I don’t believe r-essentials is available for osx-arm64 - only osx-64 on defaults. If you installed the osx-64 version of Miniconda onto your system, I expect you’d be able to create it with that - it won’t be able to run natively, but should still work afaik.
Alternatively, there is a noarch version of r-essentials and osx-arm64 for r-base available on conda-forge - are you able to install that into a new environment?
So far I’m just using the defaults. Should there be different defaults?
I don’t know how to change the arch yet. I haven’t dug that far into anaconda. Usually, if something like this that is intended to make installation easier doesn’t work out of the box it’s not worth exploring, IME. There needs to at least be a reference install that works. I’ve now tried four things and four out of four don’t work. That’s not very encouraging.
Yes, unfortunately, there is not currently great support for R for the platform osx-arm64 in defaults. The focus has been more around Python than R for that platform. The easiest solution for creating an R environment that works for you is probably adding -c conda-forge to your commands.
I’ve just spent several hours trying to understand what conda-forge is, the various installers, etc. I have a little bit of a clue now but I no longer have any conda installation. :(. None of them work. Anaconda, miniconda, miniforge, mambaforge, micromamba, all fail or install, but fail to behave as documented.
I give up. This stuff should be dead simple.
Thank you for the pointers, though.