[R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being installed

[Henrik Bengtsson]

If you're installing packages to the default location in your home
account and you didn't remove those library folders, you still have
you R 3.4 package installs there, e.g.

> dir(dirname(.libPaths()[1]), full.names = TRUE)
[1] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4"
[2] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5"
[3] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6"

/Henrik

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Akhilesh Singh
<akhileshsingh.igkv using gmail.com> wrote:
> You are right. I do take backups. But, this time I was too sure that
> nothing will go wrong. But, this was over-confidence. I need to take more
> care in future. Thanks anyway.
>
> With regards,
>
> Dr. A.K. Singh
>
> On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 11:49 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 26/04/2018 1:54 PM, Akhilesh Singh wrote:
>> > My thanks to Dr. John Fox and Dr. Duncan Murdoch. But, I have upgraded
>> > all my R-3.4.3 libraries to R-3.5.0, and I have not backed-up copies of
>> > old version. So, I would give a try each to the solutions suggested by
>> > John Fox and Dengan Murdoch.
>>
>> Here is some unsolicited advice:  I would strongly recommend that you
>> make it a higher priority to have backups available.  In my experience
>> computer hardware is becoming quite reliable, but software isn't, and
>> the person next to the keyboard isn't either.  (My last desperate need
>> for a backup was due to a hardware failure 2 years ago, but it wasn't
>> the manufacturer's fault:  my laptop accidentally drowned.)
>>
>> Backups can save you a lot of grief in the event of a mistake, or a
>> software or hardware failure.  But even in the case of routine events
>> like software updates that don't go as planned, they can save time.
>>
>> Duncan Murdoch
>>
>>
>> >
>> > With regards,
>> >
>> > Dr. A.K. Singh
>> >
>> > On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 9:44 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com
>> > <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote:
>> >      > Dear A.K. Singh,
>> >      >
>> >      > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R
>> >     3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the
>> >     package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package
>> >     from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R
>> >     package-building tools for Windows. See
>> >     <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>.
>> >      >
>> >      > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have
>> >     contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've
>> >     placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at
>> >     <
>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>.
>> >     You should be able to install the package from there via the command
>> >      >
>> >      >
>> >       install.packages("
>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip",
>> repos=NULL, type="win.binary")
>> >      >
>> >      > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of
>> >     the data.table package fixes the error.
>> >
>> >     You can see the errors in the package on this web page:
>> >
>> >     https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html
>> >
>> >     Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel,
>> >     which is the previous release of R.  I'd recommend backing out of R
>> >     3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you.
>> >
>> >     Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from
>> Github,
>> >     which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the
>> errors,
>> >     but that would require an installation from source, which not every
>> >     Windows user is comfortable with.
>> >
>> >     Duncan Murdoch
>> >
>> >
>> > On 26-Apr-2018 9:44 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com
>> > <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote:
>> >      > Dear A.K. Singh,
>> >      >
>> >      > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R
>> >     3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the
>> >     package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package
>> >     from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R
>> >     package-building tools for Windows. See
>> >     <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>.
>> >      >
>> >      > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have
>> >     contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've
>> >     placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at
>> >     <
>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>.
>> >     You should be able to install the package from there via the command
>> >      >
>> >      >
>> >       install.packages("
>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip",
>> repos=NULL, type="win.binary")
>> >      >
>> >      > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of
>> >     the data.table package fixes the error.
>> >
>> >     You can see the errors in the package on this web page:
>> >
>> >     https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html
>> >
>> >     Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel,
>> >     which is the previous release of R.  I'd recommend backing out of R
>> >     3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you.
>> >
>> >     Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from
>> Github,
>> >     which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the
>> errors,
>> >     but that would require an installation from source, which not every
>> >     Windows user is comfortable with.
>> >
>> >
>> >     Duncan Murdoch
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>         [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>
> ______________________________________________
> R-help using r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.