Native R on Apple Silicon

R can be run natively on the Apple M1 (arm64) Macs. Some discussion below from the tidyverse and Rstudio repos is a useful reference:

https://github.com/tidyverse/tidyverse/issues/248

https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/issues/8652

The important steps to get the unstable 4.1 release of R for arm64 installed on Mac are listed in the following post at R-bloggers:

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2021/02/fully-native-m1-apple-silicon-r-setup/

The only thing that seems wrong in these instruction is setting the path export PATH=/opt/R/arm64/bin:$PATH as at least in my computer the R and Rscript programs are located in /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.1-arm64/Resources/bin instead of /opt/R/arm64/bin.

One can also create a new conda environment that updates the PATH to include the location of R for the arm64 architecture.