I realized I don't have to do those checks. It was not working again (same error) message when I got home, but after a reboot it worked fine. Of course it has tcl/tk because when it works, it brings up a gui chooser thingy that allows me to choose a CRAN mirror.
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 3:33 PM Charles Geyer <char...@stat.umn.edu> wrote: > No. I didn't do any of that and am now at a hockey game. But since I > can't reproduce the problem after an Ubuntu online update and reboot, I > assume the issue is moot. But I will check these things in an hour or so. > > On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 3:24 PM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > >> >> Charles, >> >> Did you try a build of the provided alpha, beta and rc releases made >> available to allow you to ensure that the released version would build and >> perform as expected? >> >> FWIW the new 3.6.3 made ~ 12 hours ago are already available for Debian, >> built for the Ubuntu backports at CRAN (thanks to Michael) and also in the >> base Rocker container behaves as expected (and as the one RC build did): >> >> edd@rob:~$ docker run --rm -ti rocker/r-base >> >> R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29) -- "Holding the Windsock" >> Copyright (C) 2020 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing >> Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) >> >> R is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >> You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. >> Type 'license()' or 'licence()' for distribution details. >> >> Natural language support but running in an English locale >> >> R is a collaborative project with many contributors. >> Type 'contributors()' for more information and >> 'citation()' on how to cite R or R packages in publications. >> >> Type 'demo()' for some demos, 'help()' for on-line help, or >> 'help.start()' for an HTML browser interface to help. >> Type 'q()' to quit R. >> >> > capabilities() >> jpeg png tiff tcltk X11 aqua >> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE FALSE FALSE >> http/ftp sockets libxml fifo cledit iconv >> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE >> NLS profmem cairo ICU long.double libcurl >> TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE TRUE >> > >> >> >> And (to echo Martin Maechler) tcltk comes up as TRUE as it should. >> >> Dirk >> >> -- >> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org >> > -- Charles Geyer Professor, School of Statistics Resident Fellow, Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science University of Minnesota char...@stat.umn.edu [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
