[R] Package updates fail: how to fix the causes

[Ista Zahn]

Hi Rich,

Install udunits. If you don't know how to do that in slackware go ask
on a slackware forum.

Best,
Ista

On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 10:58 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard using appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
>
> Running R-3.5.2 on Slackware-14.2, using my script that updates installed
> packages found four that failed. My web searches did not find relevant hits,
> and only the last build failure is explained by the build failure of a
> specific dependency. The results displayed are:
>
> ERROR: dependency ‘sf’ is not available for package ‘spdep’
> * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/spdep’
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>         ‘/tmp/RtmpzEBBCY/downloaded_packages’
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Making 'packages.html' ... done
> Warning messages:
> 1: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :
>    installation of package ‘units’ had non-zero exit status
> 2: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :
>    installation of package ‘later’ had non-zero exit status
> 3: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :
>    installation of package ‘sf’ had non-zero exit status
> 4: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl,  :
>    installation of package ‘spdep’ had non-zero exit status
>
> Starting at the top, trying to install 'units' resulted in identifying a
> missing library:
>
> Configuration failed because libudunits2.so was not found. Try installing:
>      * deb: libudunits2-dev (Debian, Ubuntu, ...)
>      * rpm: udunits2-devel (Fedora, EPEL, ...)
>      * brew: udunits (OSX)
>    If udunits2 is already installed in a non-standard location, use:
>      --configure-args='--with-udunits2-lib=/usr/local/lib'
>    if the library was not found, and/or:
>      --configure-args='--with-udunits2-include=/usr/include/udunits2'
>    if the header was not found, replacing paths with appropriate values.
>    You can alternatively set UDUNITS2_INCLUDE and UDUNITS2_LIBS manually.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> See `config.log' for more details
> ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘units’
> * removing ‘/usr/lib/R/library/units’
>
> The downloaded source packages are in
>         ‘/tmp/RtmprbnasH/downloaded_packages’
> Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
> Making 'packages.html' ... done
> Warning message:
> In install.packages("units") :
>    installation of package ‘units’ had non-zero exit status
>
> Please advise me on how to proceed so these four packages are eventually
> updated or re-installed.
>
> TIA,
>
> Rich
>
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