R.home("include") points to wrong place for apt installed R in Ubuntu 22.04 - prevents finding header <R.h>

[shikokuchuo]

Positron Version:

Positron Version: 2024.07.0 build 81
Code - OSS Version: 1.91.0
Commit: f173405
Date: 2024-07-19T03:07:26.846Z
Electron: 29.4.0
Chromium: 122.0.6261.156
Node.js: 20.9.0
V8: 12.2.281.27-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 6.5.0-44-generic

Steps to reproduce the issue:

In Positron:

> R.home()
[1] "/usr/lib/R"
> R.home("include")
[1] "/usr/lib/R/include"
> R.home("bin")
[1] "/usr/lib/R/bin"

As the include path is wrong, this means syntax highlighting fails for C files as the <R.h> system header is not found.

What did you expect to happen?

In Rstudio / the R console:

> R.home()
[1] "/usr/lib/R"
> R.home("include")
[1] "/usr/share/R/include"
> R.home("bin")
[1] "/usr/lib/R/bin"

This is for apt system package manager installed R on Ubuntu 22.04 (and I assume later versions).

Were there any error messages in the Output panel or Developer Tools console?

NA

[lionel-]

oh I bet that will be fixed by #3637, so I'm going to close as duplicate

[shikokuchuo]

Sounds plausible.