[R-pkg-devel] Problem with loading package "devtools" from CRAN.

[Simon Urbanek]

Rolf,

what do you mean by "broken"? Since you failed to include any proof nor details it's unlikely that anyone can help you, but chances are pretty high that it was a problem on your end. I just checked with R 4.4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and devtools install and load just fine, so it is certainly broken on CRAN.

Make sure you don't have packages for old R version in your local libraries - that is a most common mistake - always remove them when upgrading R and re-install if still need them. You can check the locations of your libraries with .libPaths() in R. Sometimes, update.packages(checkBuilt=TRUE) can do the trick as well, but I prefer clean re-installs for safety as it also helps you clean up old cruft that is not longer needed.

Cheers,
Simon



> On Apr 29, 2024, at 1:19 PM, Rolf Turner <rolfturner using posteo.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> Executive summary:
> 
>> The devtools package on CRAN appears to be broken.
>> Installing devtools from github (using remotes::install_github())
>> seems to give satisfactory results.
> 
> This morning my software up-dater (Ubuntu 22.04.4) prompted me to
> install updated versions of some software, including r-base.  I thereby
> obtained what I believe is the latest version of R (4.4.0 (2024-04-24)).
> 
> Then I could not load the "devtools" package, which is fairly crucial to
> my work.
> 
> A bit of web-searching got me to a post on github by Henrik Bengtsson,
> which referred to the devtools problem.  I therefore decided to try
> installing devtools from github:
> 
>    remotes::install_github("r-lib/devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
> 
> Some 50-odd packages seemed to require up-dating.  I went for it, and
> after a fairly long wait, while messages about the updating flowed by,
> devtools seemed to get installed.  Now "library(devtools)" runs without
> error, so I am happy with my own situation.  However there seems to be
> a problem with the devtools package on CRAN, which ought to be fixed.
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Rolf Turner
> 
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