[R-sig-Debian] Fwd: package interflex

[Johan Andresen]

Cheers - my response mixes up the order of things:

The suggested apt way INSTALLED INTERFLEX nicely. Lesson learned: install
dependencies from apt if a package/library isn't in apt search.

Yes I also tried install.packages('interflex'). RStudio console complained
about the same packages like this:
ERROR: dependency 'xyz' is not available for package ''abc"
* removing '/home/............/4.3/abc'
Warning in install.packages :
 installation of package 'abc' had non-zero exit status.

ok, AFAIU, wanting to manage R dependencies as easily as possible suggests
using Ubuntu with r2u instead of Debian. Be my guest to evaluate this
interpretation.

Johan




Den tirs. 6. jun. 2023 kl. 19.58 skrev Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>:

>
> On 6 June 2023 at 19:37, Johan Andresen wrote:
> | I'd like input on how to install interflex
> | <https://github.com/xuyiqing/interflex> (note the instructions on its
> | github).
>
> It says   install.packages("interflex")   -- did you try that?
>
> | The installation failed on stable/bullseye, also when I updated to the
> | newer R version 4.3.0 through secure apt and the additional source.list
> | <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#secure-apt> element.
> | 1. $ `sudo apt r-base-dev`
> | 2. RStudio install.packages('pacman')
> | 3. RStudio pacman::p_load('interflex')
>
> Sorry but that is non-standard and not what a) the R documentation suggests
> or b) the package itself suggests.  You're on your own there; maybe try the
> RStudio / posit help forums for pacman.
>
> My preference these days is r2u (on Ubuntu 22.04) and a quick
>
>    $ time docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:22.04 install.r interflex
>
> succeeded in 22 seconds (!!) installing a total of 91 (!!) different .deb
> packages. I like r2u a _lot_ for this ease, speed and reliability of fully
> dependency-declared .deb packages (for Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04, NOT for
> Debian).  See   https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/   for more.
>
> | Warning messages:
> |
> | > 1: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> | >  installation of package 'nloptr' had non-zero exit status
> | > 2: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> | >  installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status
> | > 3: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> | >  installation of package 'pbkrtest' had non-zero exit status
> | > 4: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> | >  installation of package 'car' had non-zero exit status
> | > 5: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> |
> |  installation of package 'AER' had non-zero exit status
> | > 6: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) :
> | >  installation of package 'interflex' had non-zero exit status
> | > 7: In p_install(package, character.only = TRUE, ...) :
> | > 8: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE,
> | > logical.return = TRUE, :
> | >  there is no package called 'interflex'
> | > 9: In pacman::p_load("interflex") : Failed to install/load:
> | >  interflex
>
> There is a saying that you try to walk before you run. _Many_ of those
> packages failing to install from source (== harder, you need dependencies,
> and also slower) are in fact available as r-cran-xyz package for
> Debian. Try 'apt-cache search r-cran-xyz' for different values of xyz.
>
> Cheers, Dirk
>
> --
> dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | edd using debian.org
>

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