Currently, trying to use Reticulate to access python from RStudio is a bit of a mess. See this thread on the openscapes slack (https://openscapes.slack.com/archives/C02NC3Y62J1/p1696449495538389) for examples.
Setting RETICULATE_PYTHON env var to (the fully expanded version of) ${CONDA_PREFIX}/bin/python will actually solve almost all these issues for users of this image. There are upstream fixes that @cboettig has graciously offered to bring up with reticulate, but we don't have to wait on those getting fixed.
We should:
- Set this as an
ENV directive so it is picked up by jupyter and terminals in jupyter
- Put this inside
${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron.site so it's picked up by RStudio (which doesn't pick up env vars the regular way). The existing file should be apended to, not clobbered. I think on this image R_HOME is /usr/local/lib/R. It won't have CONDA_PREFIX set so the fully expanded path should be set.
Currently, trying to use Reticulate to access python from RStudio is a bit of a mess. See this thread on the openscapes slack (https://openscapes.slack.com/archives/C02NC3Y62J1/p1696449495538389) for examples.
Setting
RETICULATE_PYTHONenv var to (the fully expanded version of)${CONDA_PREFIX}/bin/pythonwill actually solve almost all these issues for users of this image. There are upstream fixes that @cboettig has graciously offered to bring up with reticulate, but we don't have to wait on those getting fixed.We should:
ENVdirective so it is picked up by jupyter and terminals in jupyter${R_HOME}/etc/Renviron.siteso it's picked up by RStudio (which doesn't pick up env vars the regular way). The existing file should be apended to, not clobbered. I think on this image R_HOME is /usr/local/lib/R. It won't have CONDA_PREFIX set so the fully expanded path should be set.