Bioc devel prepares for the next release of bioc, using the version of R that
will be closest to that in use at the time of the release.
The version of R that will be in use at the time of the next bioc release will
be R-3.6.*.
You should be using R-3.6 for bioc-devel.
This is summarized at ht
My seesionInfo:
sessionInfo()
R Under development (unstable) (2019-07-11 r76823)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Mojave 10.14.5
And
BiocManager::install("stringdist")
Bioconductor version 3.10 (BiocManager 1.30.4), R Under development (unstable)
(2019-07-11 r7682