ubuntu installing R

note to self: can install an up-to-date version of R from posit's cdn, of all places: https://docs.posit.co/resources/install-r.html update: make sure you grab the correct versions! I use Ubuntu 22, and tried to install for Ubuntu 24, which gave a scary unfixable error message: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using…