Remove all R scripts that require to disable the sandbox

[kit-ty-kate]

See #23309 (comment)

This is a draft for now. Let's see if they all work without those script first.

[samoht]

I'm in favour of that one.

[shonfeder]

Hi, @kit-ty-kate :) Am I correct in understanding that this is a prerequisite for unblocking #23309? If the intent was to run the CI checks here, it will need a rebase: analysis is currently failing with

2024-06-20 06:04.17: Job failed: Cannot merge to master - please rebase!

[kit-ty-kate]

Hi, @kit-ty-kate :) Am I correct in understanding that this is a prerequisite for unblocking #23309?

yes, both are related.

[shonfeder]

Sorry if this is a noisesome ping, but it's not clear to me what the next steps are for this PR, assuming it is still relevant. Is it waiting on additional work from elsewhere, or is it just a matter of trying to get the CI to go through?

This PR is tagged with policy discusson, but I'm not sure what that discussion is.

[kit-ty-kate]

This PR is tagged with policy discussion, but I'm not sure what that discussion is.

My first guess would be that it's a policy discussion because the package could hypothetically have worked on a setup with opam without sandbox. So the question might be "should opam-repository formally forbids packages that require to disable the sandbox in order to be installable?"

But @samoht might have more insights as to why it was labeled this way