In R version 4.0.0 library path not writable

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I believe this issue persists. See Travis CI - Test and Deploy with Confidence, my package (which does not use anything Bioconductor related) passes on R devel and Xenial but not R release, the error is:

$ Rscript -e ‘update.packages(ask = FALSE)’

Warning in install.packages(update[instlib == l, “Package”], l, contriburl = contriburl, :

‘lib = “/opt/R/4.0.2/lib/R/library”’ is not writable

Error in install.packages(update[instlib == l, “Package”], l, contriburl = contriburl, :

unable to install packages

I have not made substantial changes to the package, it was passing previously but started failing because Trusty was no longer supported so I switched to Xenial.

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I think if you remove

before_install:
 Rscript -e 'update.packages(ask = FALSE)'

From your travis yaml file that will be fixed.

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