[R] Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows
Jean-Claude Arbaut
arbautjc at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 12:11:40 CEST 2017
Thank you all for the help. I will try the patch.
Best regards,
Jean-Claude Arbaut
2017-04-29 0:33 GMT+02:00 Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com>:
> 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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