[R-sig-Debian] Segfault on ubuntu 18.04

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 6 July 2018 at 22:57, Göran Broström wrote:
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| On 2018-07-06 22:44, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 
| > On 6 July 2018 at 21:52, Göran Broström wrote:
| > | I did this and removed anything related to R and reinstalled. Then, in R,
| > |
| > |  > install.packages("curl")
| > |
| > | and got
| > |
| > | Error: package or namespace load failed for 'curl' in dyn.load(file,
| > | DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
| > |   unable to load shared object
| > | '/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/curl/libs/curl.so':
| > |    /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/curl/libs/curl.so: undefined symbol:
| > | curl_easy_escape
| > | Error: loading failed
| > |
| > | I have installed curl, libcurl4, libcurl4-openssl-dev.
| > 
| > We should also have r-cran-curl prebuilt for you.
| 
| $ sudo apt install r-cran-curl
| Reading package lists... Done
| Building dependency tree
| Reading state information... Done
| Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
| requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
| distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
| or been moved out of Incoming.
| The following information may help to resolve the situation:
| 
| The following packages have unmet dependencies:
|   r-cran-curl : Depends: r-api-3.4
| E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

You are looking at the wrong repo (or no add-on repo); all that was discussed
in detail here and CRAN has instructions.

Dirk

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