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-rw-r--r--pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix22
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
index 82bcc485da3..5fef166e663 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/rstudio/default.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,14 @@
-{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeDesktopItem, cmake, boost155, zlib, openssl, R, qt4, libuuid, hunspellDicts, unzip, ant, jdk, gnumake, makeWrapper }:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, makeDesktopItem, cmake, boost155, zlib, openssl,
+R, qt4, libuuid, hunspellDicts, unzip, ant, jdk, gnumake, makeWrapper,
+# If you have set up an R wrapper with other packages by following
+# something like https://nixos.org/nixpkgs/manual/#r-packages, RStudio
+# by default not be able to access any of those R packages. In order
+# to do this, override the argument "R" here with your respective R
+# wrapper, and set "useRPackages" to true.  This will add the
+# environment variable R_PROFILE_USER to the RStudio wrapper, pointing
+# to an R script which will allow R to use these packages.
+useRPackages ? false
+}:
 
 let
   version = "0.98.110";
@@ -72,8 +82,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     mimeType = "text/x-r-source;text/x-r;text/x-R;text/x-r-doc;text/x-r-sweave;text/x-r-markdown;text/x-r-html;text/x-r-presentation;application/x-r-data;application/x-r-project;text/x-r-history;text/x-r-profile;text/x-tex;text/x-markdown;text/html;text/css;text/javascript;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;";
   };
 
-  postInstall = ''
-      wrapProgram $out/bin/rstudio --suffix PATH : ${gnumake}/bin
+  postInstall = let rProfile =
+    # RStudio seems to bypass the environment variables that the R
+    # wrapper already applies, and so this sets R_PROFILE_USER to
+    # again make those R packages accessible:
+    if useRPackages
+    then "--set R_PROFILE_USER ${R}/${R.passthru.fixLibsR}" else "";
+    in ''
+      wrapProgram $out/bin/rstudio --suffix PATH : ${gnumake}/bin ${rProfile}
       mkdir $out/share
       cp -r ${desktopItem}/share/applications $out/share
       mkdir $out/share/icons