[Bioc-devel] S4Vectors installation error: no setequal S4 generic

[Laurent Gatto]

Dear all

I am trying to install S4Vectors in a clean R 4.4.3 and 4.4.1 and hit the same issue. 

Dependencies BiocVersion 3.20.0 and BiocGenerics 0.52.0 install as expected, but S4Vectors 0.44.0 fails with the following error:

** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘S4Vectors’:
 Function found when exporting methods from the namespace ‘S4Vectors’ which is not S4 generic: ‘setequal’
Error: loading failed
Execution halted

Any idea?

Laurent

> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.3 (2025-02-28)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Running under: Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /opt/R-4.4.3/lib/R/lib/libRblas.so 
LAPACK: /opt/R-4.4.3/lib/R/lib/libRlapack.so;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

time zone: Europe/Brussels
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] BiocManager_1.30.25 compiler_4.4.3      tools_4.4.3