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RStudio 2026.01.0 LATEST
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RStudio for macOS is available in open source and commercial editions and runs on the desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) or in a browser connected to RStudio Server or RStudio Server Pro (Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/CentOS, and SUSE Linux).
RStudio is the premier integrated development environment for R. It is available in open source and commercial editions on the desktop (Windows, Mac, and Linux) and from a web browser to a Linux server running RStudio Server or RStudio Server Pro.
Features and Highlights
- Syntax highlighting, code completion, and smart indentation
- Execute R code directly from the source editor
- Quickly jump to function definitions
- Integrated R help and documentation
- Easily manage multiple working directories using projects
- Workspace browser and data viewer
- Interactive debugger to diagnose and fix errors quickly
- Extensive package development tools
- Authoring with Sweave and R Markdown
Install R and RStudio on your Mac
Launch RStudio from Applications folder
Open or create an R script file
Write R code in the Source pane
Use Console to run interactive commands
View data and plots in Environment pane
Use Packages tab to manage R packages
Save your work and export results
Update R and RStudio when needed
System Requirements
- macOS 11 (Big Sur) or later
- Intel or Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3)
- At least 4 GB RAM (8 GB recommended)
- 500 MB of disk space for installation
- R version 4.1.0 or higher installed separately
- Easy-to-use interface
- Powerful debugging tools
- Supports multiple languages
- Customizable layout options
- Seamless Git integration
- Can be resource-intensive
- Limited offline help resources
- Requires R installation separately
- Occasional lag with large scripts
What's new in this version:
New:
RStudio:
- Added tools for searching within Console output and Build output
- Added support for using Air to format R code in projects configured to use it
- Added a keyboard shortcut to dismiss Copilot ghost text with the Escape key
- Added completions for the _ placeholder in piped expressions in RStudio
- Added suppressTypeInference attribute to disable inferring types during completion
- Changed Copilot Language Server (completions) to launch via Node.js instead of as a standalone binary
- Added diagnostic warning for invocations of paste() with unexpected named arguments
- Added full-height “Sidebar” pane to RStudio
- Added user preference to toggle visibility of the Source column in the Packages pane
- Added “Soft-wrap at margin column” and “Clamp editor width to margin column” preferences
- Added “Restore default pane and tab layout” command to reset pane and tab layout to defaults
- Added configuration option for “Rename in Scope” in R Markdown / Quarto documents to operate on all chunks in the document or only the current chunk
- Changed “Run Document” command to execute Quarto documents with server: shiny via quarto serve
- Added support for soft-wrapping text at a specific column (the margin)
- Added support for the netrc option in R >= 4.6.0
- Added support for RSA-OAEP when encrypting passwords on the sign-in page
- Added CSRF protection to the export file API
Posit Workbench:
- Added auth-openid-aws-role-claim and auth-openid-aws-session-name-claim settings to allow mapping custom OIDC claim names for AWS credentials
- Added support for admin-enforced settings in Positron
- Added support for managing R and Python interpreters for Workbench Jobs in Positron and VS Code
- Improved support for running Workbench Jobs using Python virtual environments in Positron
- Added support for running Workbench Jobs using R in Positron
- Updated the Posit Workbench Documentation site, the RStudio Desktop Administration Guide, the RStudio IDE User Guide, and RStudio & Posit Workbench Release Notes to v8.0.1 of the Posit product documentation theme
- Added option to remove recent projects from Workbench home page
- Added POSIT_PRODUCT environment variable with value “WORKBENCH” to all Sessions and jobs
- Added revocation logic for Session RPC cookies when a session ends (exit, suspension, or halt) or when the related user account is locked, ensuring immediate invalidation of credentials
- Added use-legacy-homepage option to allow admins to set the legacy home page as the default during the deprecation window
-rstudio-pro#9074): Added support for custom OAuth managed credentials
- Added support for launching sessions with projects that the Workbench node cannot find, in case the project exists on the session node
- Added support for managed credentials in Workbench Jobs
- Added support for projects in get_session and launch_session Workbench APIs
- Added long-polling support to get_session Workbench API
Fixed:
RStudio:
- Fixed an issue where ANSI codes were rendered incorrectly in warning messages captured while rendering plots
- Fixed an issue where previously-registered global calling handlers on startup would be removed
- Removed unintended positioning data when creating patchwork objects in R Markdown chunks
- Fixed an issue where R error output was not displayed in rare cases
- Fixed an issue where an unsaved R Markdown document could erroneously be marked as saved after executing a chunk
- Fixed an issue where Quarto rendering would use the wrong Python installation
- Adjusted width of the standalone Accessibility Options dialog to fully display the pane
- Fixed an issue where ongoing R Markdown render output was lost after a browser refresh
- Fixed an issue where gutter icons were incorrectly presented for spellcheck issues
- Adjusted Pane Layout options UI to improve space utilization
- Fixed an issue where Copilot status messages appeared below editor when Copilot was disabled
- Fixed an issue where a Copilot warning appeared when closing a document it was told to ignore
- Fixed an issue where a Copilot warning appeared when closing an unmodified empty new document
- Removed extraneous whitespace for large objects in Environment pane
- Improved accessibility of column splitters by adding accessible labels for screen readers
- Changed RStudio Desktop on Linux to default to using native file and message dialog boxes
- Fixed an issue where native file dialogs on RStudio Desktop on Linux wouldn’t show .Rproj files
- Fixed issues with pane layout when resizing the RStudio window when one or more source columns are displayed
- Fixed an issue where Copilot completions would degrade in quality if external edits were applied to an open document
- Fixed an issue where column zoom state would lose synchronization when dragging splitters to leave zoomed state
- Fixed an issue where a pane wouldn’t unzoom if no source files were open when it was zoomed
- Fixed an issue where Open File dialog could malfunction in rare cases
- Fixed an issue where warning hyperlinks were malformed in some cases
- Fixed an issue where autosave could update a file’s modified time even if it had no changes
- Improved rendering performance for large, nested tables in R Markdown / Quarto documents
- Fixed an issue where links in a PDF document presented in the Viewer pane could cause navigation to occur in the main RStudio window
- Fixed an issue where prefix text was removed by “Reflow comment”
- Removed the extra border around the splash screen on macOS Tahoe
- Fixed an issue where the Find in Files dialog could open with an empty “Search in:” directory
- Fixed an issue where rsession logs would be emitted to the console when log-message-format=json is set
- Changed R Markdown / Quarto documents to only use paged-table view for auto-printed data objects
- Fixed an issue where the “..” entry in the Files pane would not navigate to the parent folder
- Fixed an issue where the wrong error message was displayed when SSH key passwords do not match
Posit Workbench:
- Fixed an issue where home page failed to load when a user’s recent project list contains duplicate entries
- Improved contrast of check boxes on Workbench home page to meet 3:1 minimum contrast (AA)
- Fixed keyboard navigation to inactive sessions on the home page (AA)
- Fixed an issue when downloading server-side fonts in load-balanced Workbench configurations
- Fixed an issue locating vscode-user-settings.json and positron-user-settings.json when using XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
- Fixed an issue where the Workbench API was accessible with the wrong license tier
- Fixed an issue in Slurm clusters where R and Python versions were not detected in VS Code and Positron
- Fixed an issue with running Workbench Jobs from Positron and VS Code in Slurm clusters without Singularity
- Fixed an issue where session memory usage was displayed incorrectly in RStudio Memory Usage dialog when running in a Kubernetes pod
- Updated the Positron Pro logo to use a square icon
- Fixed an issue where no Workbenches appeared when opening the Resume Session dialog via URL
- Fixed an issue where VS Code and Positron could not send heartbeats to Workbench
- Fixed an issue where Snowflake Credentials were labeled as “Invalid” in the New Session Dialog after first authentication
- Fixed an issue in SAML authentication when request signing is enabled
- Fixed an issue that produced spurious “Cannot allocate memory” error in audited jobs
- Fixed an issue that changed the session name unexpectedly when switching Workbench type in the New Session dialog
- Fixed an issue where rstudio-server and root users were incorrectly added to Workbench’s internal database
- Fixed excessive logging when too many files are open in RStudio Pro
- Fixed an issue where sessions were not terminated when rsession.conf contained session-timeout-minutes=0 and session-timeout-kill-hours=1
- Fixed links to User Guide documentation in Positron
Deprecated / Removed:
RStudio:
- Removed inoperative min/max controls from Source Columns
Posit Workbench:
- Removed Crashpad for collecting crash dumps
Dependencies:
- Copilot Language Server 1.399.0
- Electron 38.7.2
- Node.js 22.21.1 (Copilot completions)
- Node.js 22.20.0 (Code OSS server)
- Quarto 1.8.25
- Launcher 2.21.0
- rserver-saml 0.9.2
- Positron 2025.12.2-5
- Code OSS 1.105
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