Re: [Rd] Cannot install dplyr

2019-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Adam, Apologies for typos in previous email -- and follow-ups should probably go to the r-sig-debian list which support R on .deb based distros. I am not sure have readers from the derivative distro you use, but there is a fairly wide spread of users there beyond "just" Debian or Ubuntu. Subscri

Re: [Rd] Cannot install dplyr

2019-10-19 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Adam, This can indeed be very frustrating. But depending on the choices you make it does not have to be that way. Most Linux distributions have 'something' it may not be comprehensive or current. So most of the time you need to be able to compile from source. Which is not that hard, and can be

[Rd] Cannot install dplyr

2019-10-19 Thread Adam Frank
So I've tried many methods to get dyplr installed, I'll detail each of the methods and issues below. I'm running a new Linux machine with Pop!_OS. *From the package manager* I tried installing r-base from the package manager but it delivers a version so out of date that when I try to install dyp