[R-sig-Debian] updating R packages with r2u

[ravi]

Hi,I am grateful for the help that I received in setting up r2u on my ubuntu system a while back. This is working fine. But I have some strange problem with r2u on another PC that, as far as I know, I installed in the the same way.
Let me first show the results in Rstudio from the successfully working Ubuntu system:
install.packages(c("broom", "curl", "data.table", "dbplyr", "dtplyr", "evaluate", "forcats", "gargle", "ggplot2", "googledrive", "googlesheets4", "haven", "hms", "igraph", "magrittr", "openssl", "pillar", "pracma", "purrr", "Radviz", "ragg", "Rcpp", "RcppArmadillo", "reformulas", "renv", "rmarkdown", "rvest", "stringr", "systemfonts", "textshaping", "tibble", "utf8", "vroom", "xfun", "xml2"))Install system packages...Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneHit https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ InReleaseHit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InReleaseHit https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble InReleaseFetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneGet:1 https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble/main amd64 r-cran-rbibutils amd64 2.3-1.ca2404.2 [940 kB]Get:2 https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble/main all r-cran-rdpack all 2.6.4-1.ca2404.1 [623 kB]Get:3 https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble/main all r-cran-reformulas all 0.4.2-1.ca2404.1 [132 kB]Fetched 1696 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
Now, I will show the results from the Ubuntu system that appears to work OK, but does not download anything:install.packages(c("broom", "forcats", "hms", "magrittr", "openssl", "pillar", "rmarkdown", "vroom"))Install system packages...Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneHit https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu noble-cran40/ InReleaseHit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InReleaseHit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble InReleaseHit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-updates InReleaseHit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InReleaseHit https://r2u.stat.illinois.edu/ubuntu noble InReleaseFetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading state information... DoneFetched 0 B in 0s (0 B/s)
"Fetched 0 B" ? What can be the reason? The only differences that I can see from the two versions are the following two lines in the latter:Hit http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security InRelease
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-backports InRelease

The .libPaths for the latter are :> .libPaths()[1] "/home/ravi/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.5" "/usr/local/lib/R/site-library" "/usr/lib/R/site-library"[4] "/usr/lib/R/library"
I don't have a problem with updating and installing ubuntu for the latter. The problem appears to only with r2u.
Is this a known problem? Please let me know if any additional information is needed for troubleshooting.Thanks.Ravi



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