SciViews Boxes are preconfigured R environments that implement the
SciViews::Rdialect (more than 750 R packages are preinstalled). They are available as Docker images, Saturn Cloud images, and native installations for Windows and macOS.
The SciViews Box 2025 works under R 4.4.3 (note that, for reproducibility and stability, no other version is allowed, including the other 4.4.x versions except on Saturn Cloud where 4.4.1 is used instead). You have thus to install this exact R version. If you want to have different versions of R simultaneously on your computer, you could install Rig and then install and switch between the various R versions at will.
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Install R 4.4.3. For Windows, for Apple silicon (M1,2,3,4,...) Macs, and for older Intel Macs.
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Start R and run:
source("https://go.sciviews.org/svbox2025")Answer yes to the question to make the SciViews Box 2025 permanent (of course, you could first say no, test it, and source the script again if you decide to keep it).
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Once in R, run at the beginning of your session:
SciViews::R
to configure the system to the SciViews::R dialect.
Enjoy!
You probably also want to install a good editor/IDE for R: RStudio, Positron, or any preferred software.
In case you want to inspect the installation script before running it, you can download it from https://go.sciviews.org/svbox2025. If you want to uninstall the SciViews Box and go back to R as it was before, it is very simple: locate the folder containing the SciViews library (run .libPaths() in your R session) and delete it (sciviews-library, and also svuser-library). If you made the SciViews Box 2025 permanent, you may also want to delete or edit the .Rprofile file in your home directory (run normalizePath("~/.Rprofile") in R to find it).
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Look in the various subdirectories to find the README files for previous versions of the SciViews Box.