[R] Can't install R6 in new installation of R 3.5.2

[Barnet Wagman]

I've just installed R 3.5.2 (on Debian 10, Buster) and am unable to 
install R6.

install.packages("R6");

yields

Installing package into ‘/home/xxx/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/R6_2.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 31545 bytes (30 KB)
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downloaded 30 KB

Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted

The downloaded source packages are in
     ‘/tmp/RtmpMQfLun/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("R6") :
   installation of package ‘R6’ had non-zero exit status

Adding the 'dependencies=TRUE option' yields a whole slew of

Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted

errors.  (The full output is below.)

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this.  I've installed R /many/ times and 
haven't run into this problem before.

Thanks.


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Full output of 'install.packages("R6",dependencies=TRUE)'

 > install.packages("R6",dependencies=TRUE)
Installing package into ‘/home/xxx/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
also installing the dependencies ‘backports’, ‘ellipsis’, ‘zeallot’,
‘utf8’, ‘vctrs’, ‘mime’, ‘glue’, ‘stringi’, ‘assertthat’, ‘plyr’,
‘fansi’, ‘pillar’, ‘pkgconfig’, ‘colorspace’, ‘evaluate’, ‘highr’,
‘markdown’, ‘stringr’, ‘yaml’, ‘xfun’, ‘Rcpp’, ‘cli’, ‘crayon’,
‘digest’, ‘magrittr’, ‘praise’, ‘rlang’, ‘withr’, ‘gtable’,
‘lazyeval’, ‘reshape2’, ‘tibble’, ‘viridisLite’, ‘labeling’,
‘munsell’, ‘RColorBrewer’, ‘knitr’, ‘microbenchmark’, ‘pryr’,
‘testthat’, ‘ggplot2’, ‘scales’

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/backports_1.1.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13859 bytes (13 KB)
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downloaded 13 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/ellipsis_0.2.0.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7045 bytes
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downloaded 7045 bytes

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/zeallot_0.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 32549 bytes (31 KB)
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downloaded 31 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/utf8_1.1.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 218882 bytes (213 KB)
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downloaded 213 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/vctrs_0.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 668258 bytes (652 KB)
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trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/mime_0.7.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 13130 bytes (12 KB)
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trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/glue_1.3.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 122950 bytes (120 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringi_1.4.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7290890 bytes (7.0 MB)
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downloaded 7.0 MB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/assertthat_0.2.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 12742 bytes (12 KB)
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downloaded 12 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/plyr_1.8.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 392451 bytes (383 KB)
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downloaded 383 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/fansi_0.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 266123 bytes (259 KB)
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downloaded 259 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pillar_1.4.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 228815 bytes (223 KB)
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downloaded 223 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pkgconfig_2.0.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6024 bytes
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downloaded 6024 bytes

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/colorspace_1.4-1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 2152594 bytes (2.1 MB)
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downloaded 2.1 MB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/evaluate_0.14.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 24206 bytes (23 KB)
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downloaded 23 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/highr_0.8.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 17445 bytes (17 KB)
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downloaded 17 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/markdown_1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 80843 bytes (78 KB)
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downloaded 78 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/stringr_1.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 135777 bytes (132 KB)
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downloaded 132 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/yaml_2.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 89447 bytes (87 KB)
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downloaded 87 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/xfun_0.8.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 54885 bytes (53 KB)
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downloaded 53 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/Rcpp_1.0.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3699570 bytes (3.5 MB)
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downloaded 3.5 MB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/cli_1.1.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 40232 bytes (39 KB)
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downloaded 39 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/crayon_1.3.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 658694 bytes (643 KB)
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downloaded 643 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/digest_0.6.20.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 135997 bytes (132 KB)
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downloaded 132 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/magrittr_1.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 200504 bytes (195 KB)
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downloaded 195 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/praise_1.0.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 6100 bytes
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downloaded 6100 bytes

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/rlang_0.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 859737 bytes (839 KB)
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downloaded 839 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/withr_2.1.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 53578 bytes (52 KB)
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downloaded 52 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/gtable_0.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 368081 bytes (359 KB)
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downloaded 359 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/lazyeval_0.2.2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 83482 bytes (81 KB)
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downloaded 81 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/reshape2_1.4.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 36405 bytes (35 KB)
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downloaded 35 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/tibble_2.1.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 310774 bytes (303 KB)
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downloaded 303 KB

trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/viridisLite_0.3.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 44019 bytes (42 KB)
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downloaded 42 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/labeling_0.3.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10722 bytes (10 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/munsell_0.5.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 182653 bytes (178 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/RColorBrewer_1.1-2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 11532 bytes (11 KB)
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trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/knitr_1.23.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 880134 bytes (859 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/microbenchmark_1.4-6.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 57682 bytes (56 KB)
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trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/pryr_0.1.4.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 43041 bytes (42 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/testthat_2.2.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 235874 bytes (230 KB)
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trying URL
'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/ggplot2_3.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 3193995 bytes (3.0 MB)
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downloaded 3.0 MB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/scales_1.0.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 299262 bytes (292 KB)
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trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/R6_2.4.0.tar.gz'
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Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
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Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted
Error in library(R6) : there is no package called ‘R6’
Calls: source -> withVisible -> eval -> eval -> library
Execution halted

The downloaded source packages are in
     ‘/tmp/RtmpMQfLun/downloaded_packages’
There were 43 warnings (use warnings() to see them)