Hi Rui. Doesn't happen to me under Ubuntu 18.04:
install.packages('cowplot',lib=.Rlib)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib
/cowplot_1.0.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1275585 bytes (1.2 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.2 MB
* installing *source* package ‘cowplot’ ...
** package ‘cowplot’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
*** copying figures
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (cowplot)
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpG8wb97/downloaded_packages’
My session info is as follows:
sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.0 (2020-04-24)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/libblas.so.3.10.3
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/atlas/liblapack.so.3.10.3
Random number generation:
RNG: Mersenne-Twister
Normal: Inversion
Sample: Rounding
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] brev_0.0-4
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.0.0 tools_4.0.0
No idea what to suggest. Sorry.
cheers,
Rolf
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Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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