[R] Warning msg after reinstall?

[Jeff Newmiller]

The topic here is R language, not operating system surgery. You probably shouldn't hold your breath for a solution to this here.

That said, compiling and running without installing for access by the whole system is always an option if you can fix the support libraries.

On November 7, 2021 2:07:20 PM PST, Brian Lunergan <ff809 using ncf.ca> wrote:
>Evening gents:
>
>First to quickly try and set the scene.
>
>I run R on Linux Mint 19.3. I had version 3.5 installed, but wanted to
>try and upgrade to 4.1. So... I deleted all R stuff I could find, setup
>the software sources file, and tried to install. Didn't work. I suppose
>it needs a more recent edition of Mint. Backpedalled as best I could.
>Now 3.5 was uncooperative. Finally found some notes describing how to
>install 3.6. That worked. So now I again have a functioning copy of R,
>with a current edition of Rstudio as my principle access tool. Adding
>pkgs through the software manager doesn't seem to be work, but as long
>as I fire it up using the sudo command I can add them through Rstudio.
>
>The puzzle comes at the end of an install round. It seems I may have
>taken out something I shouldn't have as I get the following warning.
>
>Warning messages:
>1: In readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) :
>  cannot open compressed file
>'/usr/lib/R/site-library/labelled/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
>file or directory'
>2: In readLines(file, skipNul = TRUE) :
>  cannot open compressed file
>'/usr/lib/R/site-library/TH.data/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No such
>file or directory'
>
>I'm not really sure. I assume I got sloppy withe deletions. I ask for
>assistance to solve this. What does it mean? What can I do to correct
>the error? Thanks in advance.
>
>ttyl...

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