Package: r-base Version: 3.4.1-1 Severity: important By default, when asked to install or upgrade a package as a non-root user, R creates a subdirectory in the home directory for such packages, and puts it at the front of the library path. After the upgrade, I get the following:
$ R R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30) -- "Single Candle" Copyright (C) 2017 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) [SNIP] > update.packages(ask=FALSE) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : 'lib = "/usr/lib/R/site-library"' is not writable Would you like to use a personal library instead? (y/n) y Would you like to create a personal library NA to install packages into? (y/n) y Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : unable to create ‘NA’ For some reason, rather than creating the usual path (i.e., $HOME/R/$architecture/$Rversion), the path it looks for is NA. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages r-base depends on: ii r-base-core 3.4.1-1 ii r-recommended 3.4.1-1 Versions of packages r-base recommends: ii r-base-html 3.4.1-1 ii r-doc-html 3.4.1-1 Versions of packages r-base suggests: ii ess 16.10-1 pn r-doc-info | r-doc-pdf <none> -- no debconf information
