Eric, I do have Windows as a virtual machine in GNOME Boxes, but it is only there for extremely rare cases - when I am required to do something for work on a proprietary software (e.g., sign a pdf document in Adobe, which I do once a month...). So I don't want to run R and RStudio in Windows, even tho I can and I have been able to install tidyverse there without any problems. Come to think of it, it is rather ironic - that it is easier to run this free/open source software on a proprietary OS than on a free/open source OS...
Your suggestion to try the Rstudio Server instead of desktop may be what I try next (because a bunch of additional attempts on Rstudio Desktop that I made today also failed). Thanks, Luben On Tue, 2024-01-02 at 09:06 +0200, Eric Berger wrote: > Hi Luben, > You wrote earlier that you cannot get linux help from your IT department. > I am guessing that your IT department supports Windows. > In that case, consider using Windows with WSL 2 (see > https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/about). > The default Linux distribution for WSL 2 is ubuntu, which is supported by > posit and R and will allow you to avoid the problems you are experiencing with > Mint. > A separate hint is that sometimes rstudio-server works when rstudio desktop > fails. In this case you can bring up Rstudio in your browser. > > > On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 6:39 AM Luben Dimov <luben.di...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thank you Dirk, I will read through all the other instructions on your > > site as well and try again. I have never used Dockers before, but will > > give it a try too. > > > > I appreciate all your help with R on Linux! > > Luben > > > > On Mon, 2024-01-01 at 22:14 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > > Luben, > > > > > > r2u instructions are at the site; there are two scripts for Ubuntu > > > focal and > > > jammy. I tested those repeatedly. Many people used them. > > > > > > We also support Docker installationsl; the docker images are also > > > rebuilt > > > frequently. r2u is also used around the clock on CI, likely most > > > often 'from > > > scratch' on more base-level Ubuntu installations. > > > > > > I never used Linux Mint. If this differs, you will have to work out > > > how to > > > cover any and all edges you encounter. I never claimed r2u was for > > > Mint. > > > > > > r2y has delivered well over ten millions binary packages since we > > > started > > > this, and is running likely thousands of automated jobs each way. On > > > the > > > supported platforms, i.e. mostly Ubuntu jammy. > > > > > > Cheers, Dirk > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > R-SIG-Debian mailing list > > R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
