[R] Sometimes commands do not terminate after upgrading to R 4.0 and Ubuntu 20.04

[Eric Berger]

Adrien,
you posted this same item 3 days ago to this list. And someone responded to
it.
Why are you posting the identical thing again to this list?
As Bert writes, you should post to the r-sig-debian list.

Eric


On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 4:38 AM Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 using gmail.com> wrote:

> Please, please, please ... RStudio is a wholly separate product from
> R. Post on their website if you think Rstudio has problems. And ubuntu
> concerns should be posted on r-sig-debian, not here! This list is
> about R programming issues (mostly).
>
> Bert Gunter
>
> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
> and sticking things into it."
> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
> On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 6:07 PM Adrien FABRE <lesgrains using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have upgraded R (from 3.6 to 4.0) and RStudio (from 1.1 to 1.2.5) a few
> > days ago, and Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 yesterday.
> >
> > Since then, R sometimes never terminates when executing certain commands:
> > ivreg (from package AER), summary (of a logit regression) and logitmfx
> > (from package mfx). Sometimes these commands run fine, but most of the
> time
> > I have to kill the process because R won't terminate the execution, even
> > when pressing the red Stop button in RStudio.
> >
> > When I tried example('AER'), it worked fine. Then I re-installed the
> > package AER. It threw 10 warnings of type In readLines(file, skipNul =
> > TRUE) :  cannot open compressed file
> > '/usr/lib/R/site-library/[package]/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
> > file or directory' where [package] is abind, colorspace, dichromat...
> (but
> > not AER).
> >
> > Since then example('AER') throws a warning: no help found for ‘AER’.
> >
> > I've removed and reinstalled R 4.0: it didn't help. Besides, the apt
> purge
> > r-base* r-recommended r-cran-* threw a warning: dpkg: warning: while
> > removing r-base-core, directory '/usr/lib/R/site-library' not empty so
> not
> > removed. Also, there was a bunch of Package [package] is not installed,
> so
> > not removed, including for [package] equal to r-cran-abind and the other
> > listed above (this purge also returned a bunch of Note, selecting
> [package]
> > for glob 'r-cran-*').
> >
> > I have the same bug when using R from the terminal. For the record, I was
> > probably working on RStudio during the upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. Also, I
> > can't recall if this issue started after I upgraded R and RStudio (which
> > would be my best guess) or after I upgraded Ubuntu (a day or two later).
> >
> > I hope someone can help.
> >
> > --
> > Adrien Fabre
> >
> > École d'Économie de Paris/Paris School of Economics – Université Paris 1
> > (R4-47)
> >
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> >
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