configure_args

Similar to packages_env_vars, rv aims to powerfully install packages, with package specific configuration available. Similar to R’s install.packages(), rv allows you to set configure.args per package, but it additionally gives the ability to provide different configure.args per OS and arch.

Caution

As discussed in the Cache Concept Section, changing the compilation of a package may effect other projects. If the desired behavior is to keep the compilation change isolated to this project, we recommend setting your cache directory (using XDG_CACHE_HOME for unix-like systems) to a separate directory to ensure this does not impact other projects.

Options

• name - Name of the package for which the configure args impact
• args - The configure.args for the package compilation
• os optional - Operating system for which to apply the configure.args

  Default: All

• arch optional - The system architecture for which to apply the configure.args

  Default: All

Example

rproject.toml

[project]
name = "env vars"
r_version = "4.5"
repositories = [
    { alias = "PPM", url = "https://packagemanager.posit.co/cran/latest" },
]
dependencies = [
    { name = "foo", force_source = true },
    { name = "bar", force_source = true },
]

[project.configure_args]
"foo" = [
    { os = "macos", args = ["--some-flag"] },
    { arch = "x86_64", args = ["--some-other-flag"] },
]
"bar" = [
    { args = ["--this-flag"] },
    { os = "macos", arch = "arm64", args = ["--that-flag"] },
]