[R] Error with installed.packages with R 3.4.0 on Windows

[Uwe Ligges]

On 28.04.2017 19:10, Dimitri Liakhovitski wrote:
> When I click on "r patched snapshot build" here
> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/>, it take me here
> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/rpatched.html> , it
> says: Download R-3.3.3 Patched build for Windows
> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/R-3.3.3patched-win.exe>
> However, I am unclear how can one get to the patched 3.4.0 version?

If you are on Windows, you did the roight things, but the page has to be 
updated.CCing Duncan who maintains these pages.

Best,
Uwe



> Thank you!
>
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:58 AM, Uwe Ligges
> <ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de
> <mailto:ligges at statistik.tu-dortmund.de>> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On 28.04.2017 10:45, Thierry Onkelinx wrote:
>
>         Dear Peter,
>
>         It actually breaks install.packages(). So it is not that innocent.
>
>
>     And hence, as Peter exoplained, it is already fixed inn R-patched,
>     thanks to Tomas Kalibera.
>
>     Best,
>     Uwe Ligges
>
>
>
>
>
>
>         Best regards,
>
>         Thierry
>
>
>         Op 28 apr. 2017 10:36 a.m. schreef "peter dalgaard"
>         <pdalgd at gmail.com <mailto:pdalgd at gmail.com>>:
>
>         Yes, we noticed this in the last days of the code freeze before
>         release and
>         shied away from inserting a workaround, partly because we
>         couldn't see what
>         the root of the problem might be.
>
>         For the purposes of installed.packages it is relatively harmless
>         to treat
>         the NA condition as FALSE, since it is just a matter of whether
>         a cache is
>         valid. I.e., it might cause an unnecessary cache rebuild. For other
>         situations it might be more of an issue.
>
>         The workaround (NA -> FALSE, basically) is in place in R-patched and
>         R-devel.
>
>         -pd
>
>             On 28 Apr 2017, at 07:47 , Thierry Onkelinx
>             <thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be <mailto:thierry.onkelinx at inbo.be>>
>
>         wrote:
>
>
>             We have several computers with the same problem.
>
>             Op 28 apr. 2017 7:25 a.m. schreef "Jean-Claude Arbaut"
>             <arbautjc at gmail.com <mailto:arbautjc at gmail.com>
>             :
>
>             Hello,
>
>             I am currently getting a strange error when I call
>             installed.packages():
>
>             Error in if (file.exists(dest) && file.mtime(dest) >
>             file.mtime(lib) &&  :
>              missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
>             Calls: installed.packages
>
>
>             I am working with R 3.4.0 on Windows. I didn't get this
>             error with R
>
>         3.3.3.
>
>             Apparently, file.mtime() is returning NA well applied to a
>             directory, and
>             this causes the entire && expression to be NA, then the "if"
>             fails because
>             it needs either T or F.
>             The source of "installed.packages" seems to be roughly the
>             same as in R
>             3.3.3, so I wonder if there have been other changes in R,
>             maybe the
>
>         logical
>
>             operators, that would make this function fail.
>
>             Any idea?
>
>             Best regards,
>
>             Jean-Claude Arbaut
>
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