[R] unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘colorspace’

[Kabacoff, Robert]

When attempting to install the “colorspace” package on RedHat Linux I get the following error. Any help would be appreciated.

Rob

Rob Kabacoff, Ph.D.
Professor, Quantitative Analysis Center
Wesleyan University


> install.packages("colorspace")
Installing package into ‘/home/rkabacoff/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

trying URL 'https://cran.mtu.edu/src/contrib/colorspace_1.3-2.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 293433 bytes (286 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 286 KB

* installing *source* package ‘colorspace’ ...
** package ‘colorspace’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** libs
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -DNDEBUG  -I/usr/local/include    -fpic  -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -fpic -fPIC   -c colorspace.c -o colorspace.o
colorspace.c:589: warning: ‘CheckGamma’ defined but not used
gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -o colorspace.so colorspace.o -L/usr/lib64/R/lib -lR
installing to /home/rkabacoff/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/colorspace/libs
** R
Error in parse(outFile) :
  /home/rkabacoff/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/colorspace/R/colorspace:2:1: unexpected $end
ERROR: unable to collate and parse R files for package ‘colorspace’
* removing ‘/home/rkabacoff/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/colorspace’


> sessionInfo()
R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Oracle Linux Server 6.8

locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
[3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.2

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