[R] install problem from Github or downloaded file

Thu Mar 2 02:07:55 CET 2017

Installation proceeded without error on a Mac ("El Cap") running R 3.3.2 using the first call to devtools::install_github. This is the DESCRIPTION file:

Package: artyfarty
Type: Package
Title: Themes for ggplot2
Version: 0.0.1
Authors at R: person("Bart","Smeets", email="bartsmeets86 at gmail.com", role=c("aut","cre"))
Description: A combination of ggplot2 themes, palettes and convenience functions.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
LazyData: TRUE
Imports: grid, tidyr, dplyr, ggplot2, grDevices, jsonlite, readbitmap
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, RColorBrewer, testthat
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 5.0.1
Author: Bart Smeets [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Bart Smeets <bartsmeets86 at gmail.com>
Built: R 3.3.2; ; 2017-03-02 01:00:59 UTC; unix
RemoteType: github
RemoteHost: https://api.github.com
RemoteRepo: artyfarty
RemoteUsername: bart6114
RemoteRef: master
RemoteSha: abf831d5c7cf092f5c402b903ad31196bda0a2f1
GithubRepo: artyfarty
GithubUsername: bart6114
GithubRef: master
GithubSHA1: abf831d5c7cf092f5c402b903ad31196bda0a2f1

So it has a Maintainer and you may want to contact him with a lot more detail about your setup than you have provided to this point.

-- 
David.

> On Mar 1, 2017, at 3:30 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> 
> CRAN is notorious for being picky, performing hundreds of quality checks before allowing a package to be shared there. Has it occurred to you that "artyfarty", not having been through CRAN, might simply be broken?
> 
> Yes the directories you ask about are only present temporarily while the package is checked and moved into your package library, so they are "temporary" even though they are not in your TMP or TEMP directories. The missing file is almost certainly the R file, not the directory. 
> -- 
> Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.
> 
> On March 1, 2017 2:44:40 PM PST, Jianling Fan <fanjianling at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>> 
>> I can install packages from CRAN, but I got some problem for
>> installing packages from Github or downloaded package files. I got
>> this problem in recent weeks.
>> 
>> example:
>> 
>>> devtools::install_github('bart6114/artyfarty')
>> Downloading GitHub repo bart6114/artyfarty at master
>> from URL https://api.github.com/repos/bart6114/artyfarty/zipball/master
>> Error in utils::unzip(src, exdir = target) :
>> cannot open file
>> 'C:/Users/FanJ/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmp6PonUm/devtools23184c742bf4/Bart6114-artyfarty-abf831d/R/helpers.R':
>> No such file or directory
>> 
>> so, I downloaded the package and try to install it from local folder:
>> 
>>> install.packages("C:/Users/FanJ/Downloads/artyfarty-master.zip",
>> repos = NULL, type = "win.binary")
>> Error in install.packages : cannot open file
>> 'C:/Users/FanJ/Documents/R/R-3.3.2/library/file2318185d1b3c/artyfarty-master/R/helpers.R':
>> No such file or directory
>> 
>> It seems R try to create an extra folder "file2318185d1b3c".
>> 
>> I googled this problem. some people said it is caused by TMP dir. But
>> that seems not my case:
>> 
>>> Sys.getenv(c("TMP","TEMP","TMPDIR"))
>>                           TMP                                    TEMP
>> "C:\\Users\\FanJ\\AppData\\Local\\Temp"
>> "C:\\Users\\FanJ\\AppData\\Local\\Temp"
>>                                TMPDIR
>> "C:\\Users\\FanJ\\AppData\\Local\\Temp"
>> 
>>> .Options$unzip
>> [1] "internal"
>> 
>> 
>>> sessionInfo()
>> R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
>> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
>> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>> 
>> locale:
>> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252
>> LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
>> [4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252
>> 
>> attached base packages:
>> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>> 
>> other attached packages:
>> [1] agricolae_1.2-4         Evapotranspiration_1.10 zoo_1.7-14
>>     dplyr_0.5.0
>> [5] purrr_0.2.2             readr_1.0.0             tidyr_0.6.1
>>     tibble_1.2
>> [9] ggplot2_2.2.1           tidyverse_1.1.1
>> 
>> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>> [1] gtools_3.5.0      reshape2_1.4.2    splines_3.3.2     haven_1.0.0
>>     lattice_0.20-34   colorspace_1.3-2
>> [7] expm_0.999-1      AlgDesign_1.1-7.3 withr_1.0.2
>> foreign_0.8-67    DBI_0.5-1         sp_1.2-4
>> [13] modelr_0.1.0      readxl_0.1.1      plyr_1.8.4
>> stringr_1.2.0     munsell_0.4.3     combinat_0.0-8
>> [19] gtable_0.2.0      rvest_0.3.2       devtools_1.12.0
>> memoise_1.0.0     coda_0.19-1       psych_1.6.12
>> [25] forcats_0.2.0     curl_2.3          parallel_3.3.2
>> spdep_0.6-11      broom_0.4.2       Rcpp_0.12.9
>> [31] scales_0.4.1      gdata_2.17.0      jsonlite_1.2
>> deldir_0.1-12     mnormt_1.5-5      digest_0.6.12
>> [37] klaR_0.6-12       hms_0.3           stringi_1.1.2
>> gmodels_2.16.2    grid_3.3.2        tools_3.3.2
>> [43] LearnBayes_2.15   magrittr_1.5      lazyeval_0.2.0
>> cluster_2.0.5     MASS_7.3-45       Matrix_1.2-8
>> [49] xml2_1.1.1        lubridate_1.6.0   assertthat_0.1    httr_1.2.1
>>     R6_2.2.0          boot_1.3-18
>> [55] git2r_0.18.0      nlme_3.1-131
>> 
>> 
>> Any suggestions?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot!!
>> 
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David Winsemius
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