g++ error causes non-zero exit status for package installation

dirk & bill, you guys are incredible! the non-silent .Rprofile was the
problem!
making the code interactive didn't help either, only silenceing it helped!

thanks so much! i assume moving to r-sig-debian is now obsolete.

ps, @dirk: adding michael rutters ppa also helped, but the packages get
installed to R_LIBS_SITE, and not (as i am used to) to R_LIBS-USER.
but this was only a minor inconvinience (i like to keep the packages in one
directory).

thanks again!
winfried

Am Sa., 5. Jan. 2019 um 18:40 Uhr schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org

:

On 5 January 2019 at 09:14, William Dunlap via R-help wrote:
| You would get these errors ("R: file or directory not found, version:
file
| or directory not found...") if you had a ~/.Rprofile file containing the
| line 'cat(version$version.string, sep="\n").

Well spotted -- very much so. That is bound to break use within
src/Makevars
and alike. If you must do something in ~/.Rprofile either make it silent,
or
make it conditional based on if (interactive()) { ...that_code_here... }

Dirk

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