Thanks everyone. We are already back up and running. We just did a redo of the install and started from scratch. Actually, not quite from scratch since the packages in /usr/local that I had updated were not harmed.
I’m guessing this was all a side effect of an attempt to clean up from someone previously having installed contributed packages in amongst the base packages. I’m guess splines got caught in the dragnet when cleaning up the mess. —rjp > On May 21, 2021, at 1:07 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Randall, > > On 20 May 2021 at 07:12, Ben Bolker wrote: > | splines is 'recommended' ( not sure about capitalization), not "base' > > If you install 'r-base' rather than just the narrower 'r-base-core' you > also get 'r-recommended'. So please do that, or just do > > sudo apt install r-recommended > > The granularity offered is thought of as a feature even if it stares at you > right now with very humongous insect eyes... > > Dirk > > -- > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__dirk.eddelbuettel.com&d=DwICAg&c=4rZ6NPIETe-LE5i2KBR4rw&r=S6U-baLhvGcJ7iUQX_KZ6K2om1TTOeUI_-mjRpTrm00&m=l1obx7tzJNQb2j6J4_wfeDktT--xuNcUP2IrIfMN5go&s=PcRNlKxDRkHI7d0Wt3SK1T5PjhYO3YJMXiy0MsXJvXE&e= > | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
