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by ramshorns 2235 days ago
This probably isn't the advice you're after, but you can install CRAN packages from the Ubuntu archive. apt install r-cran-<whatever>.

I haven't actually used R much, but this might be less error prone than downloading the packages from the web. TeX packages from CTAN can also be installed in a similar way which I know works pretty well.