Presented without much commentary since I stopped once {ggrepel} and {graphlayouts} failed (RStudio doesn’t support it yet, either, which I knew).<\/p>\n
The following steps will get you a fully working and STUPID FAST fully native ARM64 M1\/Apple Silicon R setup with {tidyverse} and {rJava}.<\/p>\n
Just remember, that if you need RStudio (or anything that links against the x86_64 R dylib) you’re going to be reverting this to get stuff done.<\/p>\n
# Setting up ARM64 R on Apple Silicon\/M1\n\n# I'd run each section by hand, but feel free to live dangerously\n\n# save off what you have installed in homebrew\nbrew list > ~\/Documents\/currently-installed-homebrew-formulas.txt\n\n# uninstall x86_64 homebrew\n# NOTE that in theory x86_64 and arm64 homebrew can live happily together but\n# I went cheap on the SSD in the M1 Mini and wld like the space back\n\/bin\/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/uninstall.sh)\"\n\n# make sure you unalias \"brew\" if you aliased it with \"arch\"\n# need to do this in whatever shell startup script(s) you use, too\nunalias brew\n\n# install arm64 homebrew\n\/bin\/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/install.sh)\"\n\n# do what it says re: paths\n\n# install wget (to make sure stuff is working)\nbrew install wget \n\n# place for r-libs; ty R Core & Prof Ripley!\nmkdir ~\/Downloads\/libs-arm64\/\n\n# go there\ncd ~\/Downloads\/libs-arm64\n\n# grab'em from https:\/\/mac.r-project.org\/libs-arm64\/\nfor dl in $(curl -sS \"https:\/\/mac.r-project.org\/libs-arm64\/\" \\\n | xmllint --html --xpath '\/\/td\/a[contains(@href, 'tar.gz')]\/@href' 2>\/dev\/null - \\\n | sed -e 's\/ href=\"\/\/g' -e 's\/\"\/\\n\/g'); do wget \"https:\/\/mac.r-project.org\/libs-arm64\/${dl}\" ; done\n\n# prime sudo (not rly necessary but I dislike having to enter sudo passwords in a for loop)\nsudo ls ~\/Downloads\/libs-arm64\n\n# extract'em\nfor gz in $(ls ~\/Downloads\/libs-arm64\/*gz); do \n sudo tar fvxz ${gz} -C \/\ndone\n\n# grab r-devel\ncd ~\/Downloads\nwget https:\/\/mac.r-project.org\/big-sur\/R-devel\/arm64\/R-devel.tar.gz\n\n# extract it\ntar fvxz R*.tar.gz -C \/\n\n# install libxml2 and more (to prime libraries)\nbrew install libxml2 ccache libgit2 unixodbc poppler coreutils\n\n# review ~\/Documents\/currently-installed-homebrew-formulas.txt and add what you need from there\n\n# put this in your shell startup (macOS folks shld get used to zsh, so ~\/.zshrc is a good place to stick it at the end)\nexport PATH=\/opt\/R\/arm64\/bin:$PATH\n\n# and also run it at the command prompt\nexport PATH=\/opt\/R\/arm64\/bin:$PATH\n\n# go for broke!\nRscript -e \"install.packages('tidyverse')\"\n\n# throw caution to the wind!\nRscript -e \"install.packages('devtools')\"\n\n# shoot for the moon!\nRscript -e \"install.packages(c('DBI', 'odbc'))\"\n\n# it's crazytown\nRscript -e \"install.packages('ggraph')\"\n\n# ARGH! {ggrepel} and {graphlayouts} fail (RStudio won't work anyway so this whole thing was just an exercise)\n\n# setup java; open and run the pkg installer; they have a tar.gz as well \nwget https:\/\/cdn.azul.com\/zulu\/bin\/zulu11.45.27-ca-jdk11.0.10-macosx_aarch64.dmg\n\n# tell R about it\nR CMD javareconf\n\n# setup JAVA_HOME like you would in your shell\n\n# this is necessary as the Java framework is gone from macOS in Big Sur\nRscript -e 'install.packages(\"rJava\",,\"http:\/\/rforge.net\")'\n\n##################################\n# TO ***UNDO*** ALL OF THE ABOVE #\n##################################\n\n# uninstall amd64 homebrew\n# NOTE that in theory x86_64 and arm64 homebrew can live happily together but\n# I went cheap on the SSD in the M1 Mini and wld like the space back\n\/bin\/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/uninstall.sh)\"\n\n# make sure you re-alias \"brew\" \n# need to do this in whatever shell startup script(s) you use, too\nalias brew='arch --x86_64 brew'\n\n# install x86_64 homebrew\n\/bin\/bash -c \"$(curl -fsSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/Homebrew\/install\/master\/install.sh)\"\n\n# install libxml2 and more (to prime libraries)\nbrew install libxml2 ccache libgit2 unixodbc poppler coreutils\n\n# review ~\/Documents\/currently-installed-homebrew-formulas.txt and add what you need from there\n\n# remove the following from your shell startup script(s)\nexport PATH=\/opt\/R\/arm64\/bin:$PATH\n\n# re-setup java for x86_64; open and run the pkg installer; they have a tar.gz as well \nwget \"https:\/\/cdn.azul.com\/zulu\/bin\/zulu11.45.27-ca-jdk11.0.10-macosx_x64.dmg\" \n\n# re-do the parts of the rest of the setup that you need to\n<\/code><\/pre>\n