[R] Rstudio does not run on ubuntu 20

[Luigi Marongiu]

ok so I'll redirect to Rstudio...
Thanks

On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 3:26 PM Martin Maechler <maechler using stat.math.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> >>>>> Luigi Marongiu
> >>>>>     on Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:46:38 +0200 writes:
>
>     > Hello,
>     > all of a sudden rstudio stopped working on ubuntu 20.04. I
>     > re-installed from `rstudio-1.3.959-amd64.deb` but it does not launch
>     > even if there is an icon. On terminal I got:
>     > ```
>     > $ rstudio
>     > rstudio: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.1.0.0:
> cannot
>     > open shared object file: No such file or directory
>     > $ sudo apt-get install libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
>     > Reading package lists... Done
>     > Building dependency tree
>     > Reading state information... Done
>     > Package libssl1.0.0 is not available, but is referred to by another
> package.
>     > This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
>     > is only available from another source
>
>     > E: Package 'libssl1.0.0' has no installation candidate
>
>     > ```
>     > On internet, it is said that this library was discontinued
>     > (https://askubuntu.com/questions/897444/libssl-so-1-0-0-is-missing)
>     > R is up and running instead:
>     > ```
>     > $ R
>     > R version 4.0.1 (2020-06-06) -- "See Things Now"
>     > Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
>     > Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
>
>     > ```
>     > How can I launch studio then?
>
> you don't.  Use R ! ..
>
> Well, I'm mostly joking.  Personally, I do use Rstudio very
> rarely (but R daily, 85% of my work time), but then I'm a
> co-author of ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) and have been an
> emacs lover since ~1988 ..
>
> It's good, Luigi, we (all R-help readers) now know about the problem.
> But this mailing list is about R (and the R project). Rstudio is
> a company and a product has their own support list.
> Though I'm sure they will get the message from here or otherwise
> anyway.
>
> Do keep using Linux, it's well worth the occasional small
> pain.  It allows you to smell the true original fresh air if you
> want instead of having to breathe continuously being wrapped
> inside  sugar candy.
> At home and at work, I have no computer but those running Linux
> (even though I'm occasionally glad to have access to a Windows
>  terminal server at work, not the least to test R and packages,
>  almost always using ESS also there)!
>
> Best wishes,
> Martin
>
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-- 
Best regards,
Luigi

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