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Ubuntu

Rstudio desktop "unable to open the base package"

akoontz11

6/25/23, 8:17 PM

I'm running R 4.1.2 on my Linux system (18.04.6 LTS, "Bionic Beaver"), and am able to run R code in Terminal fine. I recently installed RStudio Desktop (2022.02.0+443, "Prairie Trillium"), but when I try to run it I get a pop up window saying "unable to open base package".

Resetting the R user's state (per this suggestion, for a similar issue in rstudio-server) did nothing.

Context: I had a serious permissions issues on this server recently where the ownership of /usr was accidentally changed; see the thread here, which I followed in order to fix the problem. It seemed to work, but now RStudio is still giving me troubles.

I've scoured the Internet, but with no luck. Uninstalling/reinstalling RStudio doesn't seem to fix anything.

Thanks for any help!

Edit: Output of apt-cache policy r-base-dev:

r-base-dev:
  Installed: 4.1.2-1.1804.0
  Candidate: 4.1.2-1.1804.0
  Version table:
 *** 4.1.2-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4.1.1-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.1.0-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.5-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.4-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.3-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.2-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.1-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     4.0.0-1.1804.0 500
        500 https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran40/ Packages
     3.4.4-1ubuntu1 500
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe i386 Packages

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N0rbert

6/25/23, 8:51 PM

Try `sudo apt-get install r-base-dev --reinstall` and then run RStudio again.

akoontz11

6/25/23, 8:57 PM

Still getting the same error ("unable to open the base package") after this. The same text is written to the rstudio log (~/.local/share/rstudio/log/rsession-akoontz.log): ERROR R SUICIDE: unable to open the base package; LOGGED FROM: void {anonymous}::rSuicide(const string&) src/cpp/session/SessionMain.cpp:1206

N0rbert

6/25/23, 8:59 PM

Please add output of `apt-cache policy r-base-dev` to the question.

akoontz11

6/25/23, 9:03 PM

Thanks @N0rbert, see edit

akoontz11

6/25/23, 9:16 PM

Also: RStudio will open when called from `root`, but it gives the message `QStandardPaths: wrong ownership on runtime directory /run/user/1001, 1001 instead of 0`. Any other user besides `root` generates described behavior

N0rbert

6/25/23, 9:51 PM

Can't reproduce on fresh VM. You can try moving R folder out the way by `mv ~/R ~/R-old` and then run RStudio again.

akoontz11

6/28/23, 3:28 PM

Moving `/usr/bin/R` didn't address the problem (not sure if you meant this or something else; on the user account in question, there is no `~/R` directory). I suspect this is somehow tied to the permissions on either the R executable or other relevant R folders (since rstudio functions under `root`), but I couldn't say which ones. I'm trying to fix that now.

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Ubuntu

akoontz11

6/28/23, 4:17 PM

I ultimately had to uninstall R in addition to RStudio to address this problem. This somehow righted the permission structure and allowed RStudio to open for non-root users.

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Elon Musk

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EN: Rstudio desktop "unable to open the base package"

TH: เดสก์ท็อป Rstudio "ไม่สามารถเปิดแพ็คเกจพื้นฐาน"

RO: Desktop-ul Rstudio „nu se poate deschide pachetul de bază”

RU: Рабочий стол Rstudio «не удается открыть базовый пакет»

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