[R-sig-Debian] Segfault on ubuntu 18.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 July 2018 at 17:18, Göran Broström wrote:
| I suspect that too, since the segfault does _not_ occur if run  R  via 
| RStudio. _But_, I have run 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE)', and 
| that should take care of reinstalling, right?

That will catch all packages from _source code_ repositories.
 
| Maybe it somehow is an issue with devtools::install_github.

Well of course.  `install_github` is "cowboy mode" which I argued against til
I was blue in the face, but what can you do. Little, apart from using a drat
repo instead.

So there is your self-inflicted wound, and Henrik also showed you the trail
back to curl.

Dirk

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