R package error messages have missing package names

Hi,

I have R running with this sessionInfo ->

R version 4.0.4 (2021-02-15)

Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

Running under: Ubuntu 21.04

I am running into a problem with trying to install packages. Usually you get error messages that tell you which dependencies may not be present, so you can work on that. But in this case, the actual name of the dependency (and even the package currently being installed) seem to be missing and are replaced with just â

Has anyone else faced this issue? How do I solve this?

An example error message:

ERROR: dependency â is not available for package â

The downloaded source packages are in

â

Warning message:

In install.packages(“Signac”) :
installation of package â had non-zero exit status