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Questions tagged [r-4.0.0]
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"Debug location is approximate because the source is not available" in R 4.0.0 + RStudio
I've updated to R 4.0.0 and RStudio version 1.2.5042.
I'm developing a package and I've regularly used the following workflow:
Build the package from within RStudio by clicking the "Install & Restart" button (including the --with-keep.source R CMD…

Manuel R
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Can't plot ggplot2 objects created with R 3.x into R 4.x imported from a RDS file
I exported a list with some ggplot2 objects into a .RDS file, generated from a R 3.6.1 session. Then, tried importing it into a R 4.0.0 session and got the following error:
Error in identicalUnits(x) :
old version of unit class is no longer…

Bernardo
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Warning in install.packages: converting NULL pointer to R NULL
I just upgraded to R 4.0.0 and I am now trying to reinstall the packages I use. But when I try to do so in RStudio, I have the following warning:
Warning in install.packages: converting NULL pointer to R NULL
I also had this sort of warning later…

bretauv
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Repeated data.table fread and fwrite causes "Permission denied" error
I encountered this issue using the data.table fwrite() and fread() functions for managing resources in a parallel calculation, but was also able to recreate the behavior in the below sequential example code. Calling fwrite() throws the following…

Janus De Bondt
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Negative binomial regression in R using brm causing error when using multiple cores
I am calculating a negative binomial regression using the brm function from the brms package. As this takes quite some time, I would like to use multiple cores as suggested in the documentation.
bfit_s <- brm(
dep_var ~ ind_var +
var1 +
…

trotta
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Problem installing R4.0 on LInux Mint 19.3
I'm trying to install R 4.0 on Linux Mint 19.3 but get the following error message :
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base-core : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.29) but 2.27-3ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libicu66 (>= 66.1-1~) but it is…

Louis Kreitmann
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installing R 4.0.2 in ubuntu 18.04
I am trying to install R version 4.0.2 on ubuntu 18.04 but it shows this message:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
r-base : Depends: r-base-core (>= 4.0.3-1.2004.0) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: r-recommended…

Saira Kaleem
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read.csv doesn't seem to detect factors in R 4.0.0
I've recently updated to R 4.0.0 from R 3.5.1. The behaviour of read.csv seems to have changed - when I load .csv files in R 4.0.0 factors are not automatically detected, instead being recognised as characters. I'm also still running 3.5.1 on my…

Gareth
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How do I solve a dependency error that prevents me from installing R 4.0 on Ubuntu 18.04?
I'm trying to install R 4.0 on Ubuntu, but get this error:
$ sudo apt-get install r-base
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you…

futuraprime
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RStudio 4.0.0 installation on Ubuntu 22.04 using the Makefile but the linker is unable to find libicu library
To make RStudio 4.0.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 using the given Makefile I installed libicu58.3 (icu4c) but the linker is unable to find libicu library. This is after installing JDK 1.8 and Apache Ant 1.10 to build libicu58.3.
I tried:
To build libicu using…
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Cannot connect to R kernel using jupyter notebook instance on Google AI Platform
When I create a new instance following the directions here https://cloud.google.com/architecture/data-science-with-r-on-gcp-eda, the notebook cannot connect to the R kernel. It says initializing, then connecting then it disconnects.
When I SSH to…

Mark
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Rtools40: Where are make utilities (bash, make, etc)?
Hi i tried to upgrade my R installation and i am not able to finish it. I installed RTools40 from here
https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/
and it clearly states:
"After installation is complete, you need to perform one more step to be able…

ThePatcher
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R version 4.0.0 on Centos 6
Installing R.4.0.0 on Centos 6 , I obtain the below error.
Error lzma version >=5.0.3 ..no.
Is there a newer lzma version for Centos 6? R version 3.6 runs ok, I guess it uses lzma 4.9.

phillf
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How to install mixOmics packages in R version 4.0.0?
I have tried install package mixOmics but failed.
The output at console below:
install.packages("mixOmics")
Installing package into ‘/home/rstudio-user/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
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delta stat
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