Version bump for =dev-lang/R-3.5.3, bumped locally an no problems yet. Announced 2019-03-11, see https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-announce/2019/000638.html This will supersede =dev-lang/R-3.5.2 and make #674858 obsolete. As a heads up =dev-lang/R-3.6.0 is scheduled for release 2019-04-26, I'll report when I've bumped locally and tested.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 674858 ***
Apologies, I didn't really consider it a duplicate since its a newer version. In future I will update the comments of existing bugs with details of new versions, and adjust the subjects. Thanks for your ongoing efforts wrangling these bugs.