I've looked through a bunch of links so far, but so far none of them seems to solve my issue with installing the usethis package or getting my Git tab to work in R. For context, my session_info is below and I have just downloaded R and RStudio (along with restarting my session from scratch):
setting value
version R version 4.3.0 (2023-04-21 ucrt)
os Windows 11 x64 (build 22621)
system x86_64, mingw32
ui RStudio
language (EN)
collate Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8
ctype Chinese (Simplified)_China.utf8
tz Asia/Shanghai
date 2023-05-23
rstudio 2023.03.1+446 Cherry Blossom (desktop)
pandoc NA
─ Packages ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
package * version date (UTC) lib source
cachem 1.0.8 2023-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
callr 3.7.3 2022-11-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
cli 3.6.0 2023-01-09 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
crayon 1.5.2 2022-09-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
devtools * 2.4.5 2022-10-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
digest 0.6.31 2022-12-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
ellipsis 0.3.2 2021-04-29 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
fastmap 1.1.1 2023-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
fs 1.6.1 2023-02-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
glue 1.6.2 2022-02-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
htmltools 0.5.5 2023-03-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
htmlwidgets 1.6.2 2023-03-17 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
httpuv 1.6.11 2023-05-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
later 1.3.1 2023-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
lifecycle 1.0.3 2022-10-07 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
magrittr 2.0.3 2022-03-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
memoise 2.0.1 2021-11-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
mime 0.12 2021-09-28 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
miniUI 0.1.1.1 2018-05-18 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
pkgbuild 1.4.0 2022-11-27 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
pkgload 1.3.2 2022-11-16 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
prettyunits 1.1.1 2020-01-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
processx 3.8.0 2022-10-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
profvis 0.3.8 2023-05-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
promises 1.2.0.1 2021-02-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
ps 1.7.2 2022-10-26 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
purrr 1.0.1 2023-01-10 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
R6 2.5.1 2021-08-19 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
Rcpp 1.0.10 2023-01-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
remotes 2.4.2 2021-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
rlang 1.0.6 2022-09-24 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
rstudioapi 0.14 2022-08-22 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
sessioninfo 1.2.2 2021-12-06 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
shiny 1.7.4 2022-12-15 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
stringi 1.7.12 2023-01-11 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
stringr 1.5.0 2022-12-02 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
urlchecker 1.0.1 2021-11-30 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
usethis * 2.1.6 2022-05-25 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
vctrs 0.5.2 2023-01-23 [1] CRAN (R 4.2.2)
xtable 1.8-4 2019-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 4.3.0)
[1] E:/R-4.3.0/library
When I run library(devtools), I consistently get the following message:
载入需要的程辑包：usethis
Which basically says I still need to install the usethis package. However, I have already installed this package, and it is clearly visible in my packages tab:
I have tried updating both usethis and devtools in that order and vice versa (along with redownloading RTools in case that would be helpful), but nothing seems to get this message to go away. I have no trouble running library(usethis) and running usethis:: plus whatever command in the package. Despite all this, I am unable to find the Git tab in R after using the use_git function as advised on this page. The only thing visible in the upper right pane is this:
What else do I need to do in order to get this tab to work?
Edit
The Tools -> Global Option -> Git/SVN path only shows this in RStudio:
Nor does it have the option for selecting Git here:
I found usethis didn't work well with my setup. What I do to get git working is go to Project > New Project > New Directory > New Project and make sure the "Create a git repository" box is ticked. Then when you open the project the git tab should show up.