Upgrade R to 4.x

[mkoeppe]

Previous upgrade:

• #29441 - upgrade rpy2 package 2.8.2 -> 3.3.5, upgrade R to 3.6.3, add new dependencies

Related tickets:

• #29170 - Fix R installation errors related to gfortran
• #29378 - Update OpenBLAS to 0.3.9

Depends on #34268

CC: @dimpase @EmmanuelCharpentier @kiwifb @orlitzky

Component: packages: standard

Reviewer: Dima Pasechnik

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/29379

[mkoeppe]

Branch: u/mkoeppe/upgrade_r_3.6.3

[mkoeppe]

Commit: 0a86546

[mkoeppe]

comment:2

Tests run at https://github.com/mkoeppe/sage/actions/runs/59805322

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New commits:

0a86546

Update R to 3.6.3, add upstream_url

[mkoeppe]

comment:3

The update by itself does not fix the errors of the type reported in #29170.

On ubuntu-bionic-minimal (https://github.com/mkoeppe/sage/runs/522493080)

In file included from ../../src/include/R_ext/Applic.h:41:0,
                 from maxcol.c:37:
../../src/include/R_ext/BLAS.h:103:55: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before ')' token
   const double *beta, double *y, const int *incy FCLEN);

[mkoeppe]

comment:5

Meanwhile also 4.0.2 is out - https://cran.r-project.org/src/base/R-4/

[mkoeppe]

Changed commit from 0a86546 to none

[mkoeppe]

Description changed:

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-The upstream tarball URL is in `checksums.ini`. To test the update on this branch: Use `make SAGE_SPKG="sage-spkg -o" r`; this will download the new upstream package automatically.
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+Previous upgrade:
+- #29441 - upgrade rpy2 package 2.8.2 -> 3.3.5, upgrade R to 3.6.3, add new dependencies
 
 Related tickets:
 - #29170 - Fix R installation errors related to gfortran

[mkoeppe]

Changed branch from u/mkoeppe/upgrade_r_3.6.3 to none

[slel]

comment:8

R 4.2.0 was released on 2022-04-22.

[mkoeppe]

comment:9

Obsolete after #34268

[mkoeppe]

Dependencies: #34268

[dimpase]

Reviewer: Dima Pasechnik