[R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being installed
peter dalgaard
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Fri Apr 27 14:46:33 CEST 2018
Hmm, looks like that thread has more noise than signal...
AFAICT, data.table currently fails selftests i 3.5.0 on all platforms on the CRAN builders, so RTools issues are only incidental and it would be better to fix data.table in the sources.
From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if the root cause is the changes to POSIXlt methods in 3.5.0, but I haven't actually been digging in to check that.
- Peter D.
> On 26 Apr 2018, at 23:32 , Dénes Tóth <toth.denes using kogentum.hu> wrote:
>
> You might find this discussion useful, too:
> https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/2797
>
>
> On 04/26/2018 11:01 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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