[R-meta] error installing devel version of metafor

[Gram, Gil (IITA)]

Dear community and Wolfgang,

I’m trying to compute the cook’s distances for my pretty complex rma.mv model (for context, running the model with sparse=TRUE still takes about 12 hours). However, after a few days still at 0% I assume it’s not going well. I read that cooks.distance.rma.mv is indeed slow on complex models (https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-meta-analysis/2017-August/000122.html) and Wolfgang suggested to install the devel version of metafor with install.packages("devtools") and devtools::install_github("wviechtb/metafor”). Unfortunately I get the following error: “> devtools::install_github("wviechtb/metafor")
Downloading GitHub repo wviechtb/metafor using master tar: Failed to set default locale tar: Failed to set default locale During startup - Warning messages: 1: Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C" 2: Setting LC_TIME failed, using "C" 3: Setting LC_MESSAGES failed, using "C" 4: Setting LC_MONETARY failed, using "C" v checking for file '/private/var/folders/wz/t5wd352s5wl7tz7crj5r3ddr0000gn/T/Rtmp8x3jdd/remotesfda76b9f309/wviechtb-metafor-e153805/DESCRIPTION' ... - preparing 'metafor': v checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... - checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts - checking for empty or unneeded directories - looking to see if a 'data/datalist' file should be added - building 'metafor_2.1-0.tar.gz'

Error: (converted from warning) Setting LC_CTYPE failed, using "C"
Execution halted Error in i.p(...) : (converted from warning) installation of package '/var/folders/wz/t5wd352s5wl7tz7crj5r3ddr0000gn/T//Rtmp8x3jdd/filefda18e204cb/metafor_2.1-0.tar.gz' had non-zero exit status”

Tried to look for other ways of installing it, but in vain. Hope someone can help with this? Not sure what other information I should provide...

thanks!
Gil




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