rstudio-electron-quarto-installer

Download and install the latest macOS RStudio (electron) daily along with the latest Quarto pre-release.

Why?

The electron build of RStudio does not require Rosetta and is coming along nicely.

Also, the RStudio dev team is making tons of progress with each build so I download it frequently.

Quarto and RStudio are joined at the hip and one often has to update a local Quarto install immediately after installing the latest RStudio daily.

Installation

• Download the script
• Move it to a place on your $PATH
• Ensure it is executable (i.e. chmod 755 /path/tp/rstudio-quarto-daily.zsh)

NOTE

• It will check if any local Quarto and RStudio installs are at the latest already.
• It will also check if the DMG and/or pkg files are already downloaded
• It quits running RStudio instances without asking
• It can clobber stuff in /tmp if similarly named files already exist
• The script still lacks some error checking.

Usage

$ rstudio-quarto-daily.zsh
Installing latest macOS RStudio (electron) and latest Quarto

NOTE: You may be prompted at least once for your password for operations that require the use of 'sudo'

Beginning RStudio installation
  - Retrieving macOS RStudio (electron) daily metadata
  - Retrieving DMG
  - Attaching DMG
  - Quitting running instances of RStudio (if any)
  - Moving existing RStudio install to the Trash
  - Installing RStudio.app (2022.06.0-daily+208)
  - Unmounting DMG

Beginning Quarto installation
  - Retrieving macOS Quarto (latest) metadata
  - Retrieving Quarto pkg
  - Installing Quarto
installer: Package name is Quarto
installer: Upgrading at base path /
installer: The upgrade was successful.