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Use latest R 4.6.1 by the default #5998

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@w8jcik

Multiple R packages have installation issues after the update to R 4.6

Fixes or conflicts should be added before R 4.6.1 can be selected as the default.

The purpose of this issue is to track the progress of the effort of fixing the R packages.

Systematic approach

  • List the packages that have R as direct dependency depends_on("r") or inherit from RPackage.
  • Try installing each package against different major R versions (4.6, 4.5, 4.4, 4.3) and different GCC versions (15, 13, 9).
  • Inspect packages that fail on version update, ignore other unrelated failures unless package doesn't build at all.

There are 1219 packages depending directly on R.

Packages failing after update to R 4.6

Packages failing after update to R 4.5

Packages failing after update to R 4.4

Packages failing with older R

Other issues or more than one issue

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