Install R Studio on my Surface Pro X. Is it possible?

Question

Hi, I´m trying to install RStudio on muy surface Pro X, but it seems to be impossible...DO you know if there is a possibility to run this application on my Surface? If not I'm definitely make a big mistake with this surface....

Answer 1

Hi EugeniaBG,

Thank you for reaching out Microsoft Community and for checking with us if it's possible to install R Studio on the Surface Pro X.

Well, as long as this program or application can run in an ARM based device, then you can install it on the Surface Pro X but if in case the current application only has the regular x64 bit and it's not being compiled on an ARM processor, then this cannot be installed because  the Surface  Pro X will not install 64-bit applications that have not been ported to ARM64 and that applies to all the programs or applications you are to download on the device. It would be best to check the program's system requirement or to contact the application developer to ask if they were able to develop this program under ARM64. 

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Kind Regards,

Crest_Z

Answer 2

I've never used RStudio, but it says on the download page that 1.2 requires a 64-bit OS

https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

But since the Windows installer exe is no doubt compiled for x64 that's your problem right there, as Crest_Z noted. They also say if you have a 32 bit OS (which is what the emulation layer supports currently) you can download an older version:

https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/older-versions/

If you can live with 1.1 instead of 1.2 that should work. That said, they offer the source code for the latest version on the download page. If you know how you could compile it for ARM64 yourself. Alternately you could try contacting them and see if they'd post an ARM64 version, seeing as how they already support a whole bunch of operating systems already.

Answer 3

Oh my gosh! So, did I make a mistake buying Surface X instead of Surface 7?  RStudio won´t be available for ARM unless Microsoft pushes for that.  If you are not going to do that, I am already sorry for my purchase.