This issue is not a problem, but a matter of curiosity. In the course of updating my Windows 10 and Ubuntu 18.04 desktops to R 4.0, I noted that the Windows version includes a package "translations" that appears to contain translations of various system messages, installed as part of the R update. A parallel update on my Ubuntu 18.04 desktop did not include the translations package, and when I tried to install it manually, I was told that there was no "translations" package for R 4.0. But a Google search reveals that there is, indeed, an R package "translations," created by the R-core project team. The web site doesn't indicate that the package has been deleted from the CRAN repository, but I can't "reinstall" it on my version 4.0 R on either the Windows or Ubuntu deskop.
Warning in install.packages :
package ‘translations’ is not available (for R version 4.0.0)
But the package was installed by the R 4.0 installer in my c:\ Program Files\R\R-4.0.0\library directory.
I am assuming that the message translations are now part of the basic R program, or maybe only loaded when the installer (person) indicates a preferred language other than English, and the package parked for convenience in the library directory.
Does anyone have an accurate explanation of this conundrum?
Thanks in advance!
Larry Hunsicker