Error Installing Node.js and flowR Shell on macOS

[lorraine-dev]

Environment:

flowR Preferences:

Use Local Shell
Local Node.js version: 22.5.1
Local flowR version: 2.0.25

sessionInfo()

R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: aarch64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS 15.0.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib; LAPACK version 3.12.0

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

other attached packages:
[1] shiny_1.9.1

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] cli_3.6.3 rlang_1.1.4 processx_3.8.4 promises_1.3.0
[5] pingr_2.0.3 jsonlite_1.8.9 xtable_1.8-4 htmltools_0.5.8.1
[9] httpuv_1.6.15 sys_3.4.3 ps_1.8.0 sass_0.4.9
[13] jquerylib_0.1.4 fastmap_1.2.0 lifecycle_1.0.4 memoise_2.0.1
[17] compiler_4.4.1 miniUI_0.1.1.1 Rcpp_1.0.13 rstudioapi_0.17.1
[21] later_1.3.2 rstudioaddinflowr_0.1.1 digest_0.6.37 R6_2.5.1
[25] magrittr_2.0.3 bslib_0.8.0 tools_4.4.1 flowr_0.0.3
[29] mime_0.12 cachem_1.1.0

Issue Description:

I attempted to use the rstudioaddinflowr package's functionality to install Node.js and flowR Shell locally, but encountered an error during the installation process. Here are the details:

Executed rstudioaddinflowr:::install_node_addin() in RStudio.

Trying to slice then gives this error:

I then reattempted the task with the option "Use Docker instead of node", unchecked "Use local shell" in preferences.
And got the error:

[Ellpeck]

Hi, thanks so much for all the details!

Firstly, if you'd like to use Docker instead of node, there are two ways to do so:

• You can check "Use Docker instead of node" but leave "Use local shell" checked, which will cause the addin to start up its own Docker container using your system Docker installation. This seems to be what you meant to do, but you unchecked "Use local shell" erroneously.
• The other way is to uncheck "Use local shell", at which poin the "Use Docker instead of node" setting will have no effect. This setting is useful if you want to start a Docker container running flowR manually, or if you'd like to connect to an external flowR server.

In terms of your issue installing node and flowR through the addin, I'm not really sure what's going on there yet. If you're able to, it may be worth attempting to start RStudio or the R shell with root privileges and trying to install node and flowR through the addin again.