George Hartzell

(and yes, it isn't lost on me that several others have mentioned `.libPaths()` above....)

[So](https://www.npr.org/2015/09/03/432732859/so-whats-the-big-deal-with-starting-a-sentence-with-so), it turns out that `/path/to/view/bin/R` is a link to a shell script (`/bin/R`) that starts off like so: ```sh #!/bin/sh # Shell wrapper for R executable. R_HOME_DIR=/local_scratch/hartzell/spack-20200502010708/opt/spack/linux-centos7-skylake_avx512/gcc-8.4.0/r-3.6.1-m6b65h6anqpssreaekudasvas7pgozui/rlib/R # ......

Yeah, I just found them.... `add_files_to_view` even calls `filter_file` on certain files.... Not sure that there even needs to be anything other than default behavior for removing files. I'm in...

I haven't tested it much, but I can confirm that copying that base method from package.py into `r/packae.py` and extending it so that it checks for the two copies of...

Uninstalling and installing _mkfontdir_ allowed me to install the fonts that had failed above (see the thread in #2139).

In a bit more poking and prodding I linked the various config presets into my fontconfig directory and reran `fc-cache -f` ``` bash mkdir ~/.config/fontconfig/conf.g for f in /rss/spack/opt/spack/linux-centos7-x86_64/gcc-5.4.0/fontconfig-2.11.1-ti2zz3wpp4yflrik6p7pt5nih7ngdhip/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/* ;...

> Other that that, I don't know anything about them, I just added the packages. Oh dear. Here I was hoping you'd tell me what to do. :fearful:...

> Maybe fonts should be integrated it the font-util installation via Spack extensions and spack activate, just like Python packages? There's something that needs to be done here. There's some...

I've just created PR #2203, which fixes the immediate problem with my R plots. The plots drawn by a linuxbrew installed R (using their xorg stuff) are still nicer than...

I have a file that I read (`ltchiptool flash info bk7231n`; and `ltchiptool -v flash read bk7231 ghome-wp9.bin`) from a recently purchased "GHome WP9". I can share it if it's...