Randall,
On 20 May 2021 at 07:12, Ben Bolker wrote: | splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base' If you install 'r-base' rather than just the narrower 'r-base-core' you also get 'r-recommended'. So please do that, or just do sudo apt install r-recommended The granularity offered is thought of as a feature even if it stares at you right now with very humongous insect eyes... Dirk -- https://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel