R packages in Colab

[chrismgentry]

A number of R packages have "units" as a dependency. However, when trying to install those packages you receive the following message:

Warning message in FUN(X[[i]], ...):
“installation of package ‘units’ had non-zero exit status”

In the past I have used the following work around: system('sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev') to install "units" package which allows for those packages that require it to install.

Is there a way to get "units" installed at the core level so you can simply load a library without the dependency issue?

[cperry-goog]

Thanks for the report, tracking this internally at b/234762714