[R] Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows
Duncan Murdoch
murdoch.duncan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 00:33:38 CEST 2017
On 28/04/2017 5:58 PM, Uwe Ligges wrote:
>
>
> On 28.04.2017 19:10, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
>> When I click on "r patched snapshot build" here
>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/>, it take me here
>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html> , it
>> says: Download R-3.3.3 Patched build for Windows
>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-3.3.3patched-win.exe>
>> However, I am unclear how can one get to the patched 3.4.0 version?
>
> If you are on Windows, you did the roight things, but the page has to be
> updated.CCing Duncan who maintains these pages.
Thanks, I missed that update. It is now building 3.4.0-patched, so that
version should be available on the mirrors in a few hours.
Duncan Murdoch
>
> Best,
> Uwe
>
>
>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Uwe Ligges
>> <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
>> <mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 28.04.2017 10:45, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
>>
>> Dear Peter,
>>
>> It actually breaks install.packages(). So it is not that innocent.
>>
>>
>> And hence, as Peter exoplained, it is already fixed inn R-patched,
>> thanks to Tomas Kalibera.
>>
>> Best,
>> Uwe Ligges
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>>
>> Op 28 apr. 2017 10:36 a.m. schreef "peter dalgaard"
>> <pdalgd at gmail.com <mailto:pdalgd at gmail.com>>:
>>
>> Yes, we noticed this in the last days of the code freeze before
>> release and
>> shied away from inserting a workaround, partly because we
>> couldn't see what
>> the root of the problem might be.
>>
>> For the purposes of installed.packages it is relatively harmless
>> to treat
>> the NA condition as FALSE, since it is just a matter of whether
>> a cache is
>> valid. I.e., it might cause an unnecessary cache rebuild. For other
>> situations it might be more of an issue.
>>
>> The workaround (NA -> FALSE, basically) is in place in R-patched and
>> R-devel.
>>
>> -pd
>>
>> On 28 Apr 2017, at 07:47 , Thierry Onkelinx
>> <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be <mailto:thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>>
>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> We have several computers with the same problem.
>>
>> Op 28 apr. 2017 7:25 a.m. schreef "Jean-Claude Arbaut"
>> <arbautjc at gmail.com <mailto:arbautjc at gmail.com>
>> :
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am currently getting a strange error when I call
>> installed.packages():
>>
>> Error in if (file.exists(dest) && file.mtime(dest) >
>> file.mtime(lib) && :
>> missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>> Calls: installed.packages
>>
>>
>> I am working with R 3.4.0 on Windows. I didn't get this
>> error with R
>>
>> 3.3.3.
>>
>> Apparently, file.mtime() is returning NA well applied to a
>> directory, and
>> this causes the entire && expression to be NA, then the "if"
>> fails because
>> it needs either T or F.
>> The source of "installed.packages" seems to be roughly the
>> same as in R
>> 3.3.3, so I wonder if there have been other changes in R,
>> maybe the
>>
>> logical
>>
>> operators, that would make this function fail.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jean-Claude Arbaut
>>
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