The 'dvir' package for R is limited in
that it is only known to work on an (Ubuntu) Linux
distribution with (at least) a full TeX installation.
Unfortunately, not even that is true for recent stable
Linux releases, like Ubuntu 20.04, because of a dependence on Type 1 fonts.
This report describes an update to the 'dvir' package,
plus some guidelines on avoiding Type 1 fonts, so that
'dvir' will work on recent stable Linux distributions
(or at least Ubuntu 20.04).