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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".

RStudio_Error_SUICIDE

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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  • Try sudo apt-get install r-base-dev --reinstall and then run RStudio again. – N0rbert Feb 25 '22 at 20:51
  • 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

     – akoontz11 Feb 25 '22 at 20:57
  • Please add output of apt-cache policy r-base-dev to the question. – N0rbert Feb 25 '22 at 20:59
  • Thanks @N0rbert, see edit – akoontz11 Feb 25 '22 at 21:03
  • 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 – akoontz11 Feb 25 '22 at 21:16
  • 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. – N0rbert Feb 25 '22 at 21:51
  • 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.

     – akoontz11 Feb 28 '22 at 15:28

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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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