Hi Robin, thanks for opening this discussion here too. Actually the right set-up is trivial for many of us. I have always used the ubuntugis-unstable repository with the repository "https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/" for R. Everything worked fine for me since some weeks ago when I had troubles with sf using gdal 3.0.2 whcih made this problem occurring again (https://github.com/r-spatial/stars/issues/175) I hope Ubuntu 20.04 will solve this All my bests
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