Conflict between Fedora CRAN copr and r-languageserver

[py9mrg]

Hello,

Fedora has a helpful copr that contains binaries of CRAN packages. Unfortunately there seems to be a conflict between the functionality of the copr and the installation of r-languageserver. To use the Fedora copr you need to install a Fedora package called R-CoprManager. When this is installed (even if it is manually disabled with R) it prevents installation of r-languageserver.

The current workaround is to uninstall R-CoprManager, install r-language server, and then reinstall R-CoprManager. I placed an issue on the R-CoprManager repos but it seems the issue is related to the build process being used here. Specifically they advise to add the `--vanilla`` argument, as follows:

R --vanilla --slave -f src/install.r <lib_loc> <ref>

Is it possible for you to modify accordingly, please?

Thanks.

[dsdole]

I don't mean to pollute the issues but I was having an issue installing r-langaugeserver with mason.nvim on fedora 39. I followed the above comment and removed R-CoprManager and r-languageserver installed perfectly. Just saying that the above does work.

[FriederRodewald]

Just stumbled on your comment. Thank you so much for the workaround. I second that it works and that it would be nice if it was fixed in mason :)