rstudio cannot be installed on this environment (Anaconda3 on Windows 10)

[Dawei Li]

I am on Windows 10, and have installed Anaconda3 individual edition (version 2020.11, latest as of Dec. 12, 2020). I want to install RStudio inside Anaconda3 using the Anaconda Navigator.

I created a new environment called renv (also tried rstudio, renv2, etc) and checked both Python (3.8) and r. Then, I tried to install RStudio on this environment. Unfortunately, I always got this error: rstudio cannot be installed on this environment. It asks me whether I'd like to create a new environment (which is exactly what I have done). So, I created a new environment and the same error occurred, over and over again.

Some things I have tried so far:

• Tried installing for all user
• Tried installing only for me
• Tried running the exe installer as a normal user
• Tried running the exe installer as an administrator
• Tried checking "using Anaconda3 as the system Python3"
• Tried unchecking "using Anaconda3 as the system Python3"

No luck in resolving the issue... I had this problem several months back, hoped new releases will not have the problem. Unfortunately, the error persists.

Can someone help? Could you fix this problem?

[David Kun]

For me, it seems that installing rstudio is somewhat finicky on Windows 10.  However, I got rstudio to install using the Anaconda prompt as follows:

> conda create -n renv python=3.7 -y

> conda activate renv

> conda install rstudio

> rstudio

For more discussion, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38534383/how-to-set-up-conda-installed-r-for-use-with-rstudio

I've never used rstudio but I was able to get the Rstudio GUI to appear when running "rstudio".

Note, conda version is 4.7.12 = 2019-09-12.  python version 3.7.1.  

Hope that helps and good luck!