[R-pkg-devel] building binary gives error when trying to load

[Uwe Ligges]

On 01.11.2016 15:56, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> On 01/11/2016 9:49 AM, Rampal Etienne wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> When I try to build a Windows binary in RStudio using R-devel,
>> everything goes well until the packages is tested whether it can be
>> loaded. I then get the error:
>>
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded *** arch - i386 Error:
>> '\U' used without hex digits in character string starting "'C:\U"
>> Execution halted *** arch - x64 Error: '\U' used without hex digits in
>> character string starting "'C:\U" Execution halted ERROR: loading failed
>> for 'i386', 'x64' * removing
>> 'C:\Users\rampa\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmp0o1Fm1\temp_libpath1cd445c31688/SADISA'
>>
>> Error: Command failed (1) Execution halted Exited with status 1.
>
> That looks like a bug.


Indeed, it is also fairly new, as I typically do manual stuff that way 
and it hit me 5 minuites ago. Sorry for not having tested it as I did 
not believe there was a newly introduced bug.

Uwe



   It's in R, not RStudio.  To reproduce, start
> cmd.exe, and switch to a directory containing a source tarball or a
> source directory, and run
>
> R CMD INSTALL --build <tarball>
>
> For instance, when I do that with the tables package, I get
>
> D:\svn\MyR>R CMD INSTALL --build tables
> * installing to library 'f:\cygwin\home\murdoch\R\win-library\3.4'
> * installing *source* package 'tables' ...
> ** R
> ** preparing package for lazy loading
> ** help
> *** installing help indices
> ** building package indices
> ** installing vignettes
> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
> Error: '\c' is an unrecognized escape in character string starting "'f:\c"
> Execution halted
> ERROR: loading failed
> * removing 'f:\cygwin\home\murdoch\R\win-library\3.4/tables'
> * restoring previous 'f:\cygwin\home\murdoch\R\win-library\3.4/tables'
>
> It appears that the script is building paths including unescaped
> backslashes when it constructs the library path.  You can probably work
> around it by specifying the library path explicitly.  Since you were
> installing into a temporary library, that's a little tricky, but for
> most people it should be easy.
>
> I'll see if I can track it down and fix it.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>>
>>
>> I have updated RStudio, Rtools and Rdevel,and the problem persists. Does
>> anyone have a clue how to solve this?
>>
>> Before I updated to the newest Rdevel, everything worked fine.
>>
>> Kind regards, Rampal Etienne
>>
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