Using RStudio with R 3.6 - Transmission Error

Hi everyone,

If you want to use RStudio with R 3.6 there is a small error that occurs relating to an issue in the .rprofile file. This is easily rectified.

ISSUE

If you try to upgrade R you might get this error: RStudio Initialization Error - Error occurred during transmission

FIX

You need to remove this the following line, options(error = .domino.handleError), from the .Rprofile. You can do so with this command:

sed -i '/options(error/d' /home/ubuntu/.Rprofile

Here is an example of what you can add to your Docker file in an Ubuntu 16.04 Environment:

RUN add-apt-repository 'deb http://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu xenial-cran35/' && \
apt-get update -y && \
apt-get remove r-base-core -y && \
apt-get install r-base-core=3.6.0* -y && \
sed -i '/options(error/d' /home/ubuntu/.Rprofile
## Update all R packages to be compatible with R3.6
RUN R --no-save -e 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)'

And here is an example of what you can add to your Docker file in an Ubuntu 18.04 Environment:

RUN apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E298A3A825C0D65DFD57CBB651716619E084DAB9 && \
add-apt-repository 'deb https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu bionic-cran35/' && \
apt-get remove r-base-core -y && \
apt-get install r-base-core=3.6.0* -y && \
sed -i '/options(error/d' /home/ubuntu/.Rprofile
## Update all R packages to be compatible with R3.6
RUN R --no-save -e 'update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)'

Have a powerful day,

Petter