With the upgrade to R 4.0.0 r-minimal is now reproducible. This is not
because R 4.0.0 fixed anything but because more package meta data files
had become irreproducible.
I noticed that setting LC_ALL to C during the build ensures that package
meta data files are generated reproducibly.
Closing!
R has a bizzare reproducibility problem:
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diffoscope
/gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0/lib/R/library/methods/Meta/package.rds
/gnu/store/m317mg8faxp9qn949dnv1xgsxyw57s3x-r-minimal-3.6.0-check/lib/R/librar
