[R-sig-Debian] Installing in RStudio Server in Windows WSL2

Michael Rutter m@rutter @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Thu Sep 17 00:57:02 CEST 2020



On 9/16/20 3:37 PM, Irene V. Siemen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am following the below instructions for setting up an RStudio server in
> Windows.
> 
> https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049776974-Using-RStudio-Server-in-Windows-WSL2
> 
>    I am a novice so I might be making an obvious mistake, but I am receiving
> an error in step 3 of the RStudio server setup. I entered the below code
> into ubuntu:
> sudo add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu
> focal-cran40/'

Irene,

I believe the issue is that the "Linux" is capitalized.  It should be a 
lower case "linux".  If you edit your "/etc/apt/sources.list" file to 
make it lower case, it should work.  I will let the folks are RStudio know.

Michael

> and I received the error message:
> E: The repository 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/Linux/ubuntu
> focal-cran40/ Release' does not have a Release file.
> N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore
> disabled by default.
> 
> Am I missing something or do I need to reference a different url?
> 
> thanks!
> Irene
> 
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