R 4.3.3.1 packaging

[Fergus Daly]

>> I just re-installed R 4.3.3.1 after noticing the following error message.
>> However the error message recurs, as follows:
>>       During startup - Warning message:
>>       package 'stats' in options("defaultPackages") was not found
>> (Weird - because R is a stats package .. .. ??)

> C:\cygwin64\lib\lapack\cyglapack-0.dll
> This library is, for specific system reason, in an unusual 
> position, and for that reason the package provides the etc/profile
> to add "/usr/lib/lapack" to the PATH
> So: required:
> $ echo $PATH
> [..] :/usr/lib/lapack: [..]

Thank you very much.
So: I edited my path accordingly.
(It is just a bit regrettable - is it not?? - that a single app requires
this fundamental edit.
Unprecedented in my 20+ years' experience of using Cygwin.)