>>>>> "Adrien" == Adrien FABRE <lesgra...@gmail.com> writes:
Adrien> I have upgraded R (from 3.6 to 4.0) and RStudio (from 1.1 to 1.2.5) a
few
Adrien> days ago, and Ubuntu from 18.04 to 20.04 yesterday.
Adrien> Since then, R sometimes never terminates when executing certain
commands:
Adrien> ivreg (from package AER), summary (of a logit regression) and logitmfx
Adrien> (from package mfx). Sometimes these commands run fine, but most of
the time
Adrien> I have to kill the process because R won't terminate the execution,
even
Adrien> when pressing the red Stop button in RStudio.
Adrien> When I tried example('AER'), it worked fine. Then I re-installed the
Adrien> package AER. It threw 10 warnings of type In readLines(file, skipNul =
Adrien> TRUE) : cannot open compressed file
Adrien> '/usr/lib/R/site-library/[package]/DESCRIPTION', probable reason 'No
such
Adrien> file or directory' where [package] is abind, colorspace, dichromat...
(but
Adrien> not AER).
Adrien> Since then example('AER') throws a warning: no help found for ‘AER’.
Adrien> I've removed and reinstalled R 4.0: it didn't help. Besides, the apt
purge
Adrien> r-base* r-recommended r-cran-* threw a warning: dpkg: warning: while
Adrien> removing r-base-core, directory '/usr/lib/R/site-library' not empty
so not
Adrien> removed. Also, there was a bunch of Package [package] is not
installed, so
Adrien> not removed, including for [package] equal to r-cran-abind and the
other
Adrien> listed above (this purge also returned a bunch of Note, selecting
[package]
Adrien> for glob 'r-cran-*').
Adrien> I have the same bug when using R from the terminal. For the record, I
was
Adrien> probably working on RStudio during the upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04. Also,
I
Adrien> can't recall if this issue started after I upgraded R and RStudio
(which
Adrien> would be my best guess) or after I upgraded Ubuntu (a day or two
later).
Adrien> I hope someone can help.
There has been a discussion on R-SIG-Debian recently,
and /perhaps/ it is related to your troubles.
See https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2020-April/003159.html
and in particular
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2020-April/003166.html
.
--
Enrico Schumann
Lucerne, Switzerland
http://enricoschumann.net
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