[R] Error with "compiler" and "caret" packages

[Jeff Newmiller]

Running Windows and user of caret.

BTW permissions problems can begin with installation if you use "Run As Administrator..." mode instead of just letting the install program prompt you for permission to install. But I know nothing about caret.
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On January 26, 2017 4:11:54 PM PST, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Perfectly reasonable questions: I don't have a clue. Perhaps someone
>runnig Windows can answer.
>
>-- Bert
>Bert Gunter
>
>"The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming along
>and sticking things into it."
>-- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>
>
>On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Jeff Hughes <jeff.hughes at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> That sounds like a good thing to check, but what permissions should I
>be
>> checking? I'm not very familiar with how the compiler works -- is it
>> creating temp files somewhere that I should check? If you have a
>suggestion
>> for a directory or two that seem like good candidates, I can play
>around
>> with the permissions, but I don't really want to start messing around
>with
>> my entire C: drive or whatever.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Jeff
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 1:25 PM, Bert Gunter <bgunter.4567 at gmail.com>
>wrote:
>>>
>>> Check your permissions? They may be denying your process access.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Bert
>>> Bert Gunter
>>>
>>> "The trouble with having an open mind is that people keep coming
>along
>>> and sticking things into it."
>>> -- Opus (aka Berkeley Breathed in his "Bloom County" comic strip )
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Jeff Hughes <jeff.hughes at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi there,
>>> >
>>> > I have been getting an irritating error when trying to use the
>"caret"
>>> > package on one of my machines. Whenever I train any model
>whatsoever, it
>>> > comes back with this error:
>>> >
>>> > Warning: namespace ‘compiler’ is not available and has been
>replaced
>>> > by .GlobalEnv when processing object ‘sep’
>>> > Error in comp(expr, env = envir, options = list(suppressUndefined
>=
>>> > TRUE))
>>> > :
>>> >   could not find function "makeCenv"
>>> >
>>> > As a result, the model does not work, and I am unable to use the
>caret
>>> > package. As an example, here is some code that causes the error,
>though
>>> > it
>>> > has happened in every case I have tried:
>>> >
>>> > library(caret)
>>> > fit.knn <- train(Species ~ ., data=iris, method="knn")
>>> >
>>> > I have tried reinstalling the caret package; I have tried
>reinstalling
>>> > R; I
>>> > have tried updating all of my packages; nothing has worked. What's
>more,
>>> > this machine is running Windows 10, and I have successfully run
>the same
>>> > code on two other machines running the same version of Windows,
>the same
>>> > version of R, and the same version of the caret package. I have
>also
>>> > only
>>> > run into it when using caret, but I don't think the error lies
>within
>>> > that
>>> > package itself.
>>> >
>>> > Here is my sessionInfo() after running the above code in a new R
>>> > session:
>>> >
>>> > R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>>> > Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>>> > Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)
>>> >
>>> > locale:
>>> > [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
>>> > States.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
>>> > [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                           LC_TIME=English_United
>>> > States.1252
>>> >
>>> > attached base packages:
>>> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods  
>base
>>> >
>>> > other attached packages:
>>> > [1] caret_6.0-73    ggplot2_2.2.1   lattice_0.20-34
>>> >
>>> > loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>>> >  [1] Rcpp_0.12.8        magrittr_1.5       splines_3.3.2
>>> > MASS_7.3-45
>>> >      munsell_0.4.3      colorspace_1.3-2
>>> >  [7] foreach_1.4.3      minqa_1.2.4        stringr_1.1.0     
>car_2.1-4
>>> >      plyr_1.8.4         tools_3.3.2
>>> > [13] parallel_3.3.2     nnet_7.3-12        pbkrtest_0.4-6    
>grid_3.3.2
>>> >       gtable_0.2.0       nlme_3.1-128
>>> > [19] mgcv_1.8-16        quantreg_5.29      e1071_1.6-7
>>> > class_7.3-14
>>> >       MatrixModels_0.4-1 iterators_1.0.8
>>> > [25] lme4_1.1-12        lazyeval_0.2.0     assertthat_0.1    
>tibble_1.2
>>> >       Matrix_1.2-7.1     nloptr_1.0.4
>>> > [31] reshape2_1.4.2     ModelMetrics_1.1.0 codetools_0.2-15
>>> > stringi_1.1.2
>>> >      scales_0.4.1       stats4_3.3.2
>>> > [37] SparseM_1.74
>>> >
>>> > Note that the "compiler" package is not loaded for some reason,
>which I
>>> > think it should be (the other machines on which this runs
>successfully
>>> > have
>>> > it loaded). But the compiler package is built-in, so I can't seem
>to
>>> > find a
>>> > way to load it manually.
>>> >
>>> > This one has really stumped me, and there are very few relevant
>hits on
>>> > Google. Any help would be much appreciated!
>>> >
>>> > Jeff
>>> >
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