[R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being installed

[Akhilesh Singh]

You are right. I do take backups. But, this time I was too sure that
nothing will go wrong. But, this was over-confidence. I need to take more
care in future. Thanks anyway.

With regards,

Dr. A.K. Singh

On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 11:49 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 26/04/2018 1:54 PM, Akhilesh Singh wrote:
> > My thanks to Dr. John Fox and Dr. Duncan Murdoch. But, I have upgraded
> > all my R-3.4.3 libraries to R-3.5.0, and I have not backed-up copies of
> > old version. So, I would give a try each to the solutions suggested by
> > John Fox and Dengan Murdoch.
>
> Here is some unsolicited advice:  I would strongly recommend that you
> make it a higher priority to have backups available.  In my experience
> computer hardware is becoming quite reliable, but software isn't, and
> the person next to the keyboard isn't either.  (My last desperate need
> for a backup was due to a hardware failure 2 years ago, but it wasn't
> the manufacturer's fault:  my laptop accidentally drowned.)
>
> Backups can save you a lot of grief in the event of a mistake, or a
> software or hardware failure.  But even in the case of routine events
> like software updates that don't go as planned, they can save time.
>
> Duncan Murdoch
>
>
> >
> > With regards,
> >
> > Dr. A.K. Singh
> >
> > On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 9:44 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com
> > <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote:
> >      > Dear A.K. Singh,
> >      >
> >      > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R
> >     3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the
> >     package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package
> >     from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R
> >     package-building tools for Windows. See
> >     <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>.
> >      >
> >      > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have
> >     contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've
> >     placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at
> >     <
> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>.
> >     You should be able to install the package from there via the command
> >      >
> >      >
> >       install.packages("
> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip",
> repos=NULL, type="win.binary")
> >      >
> >      > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of
> >     the data.table package fixes the error.
> >
> >     You can see the errors in the package on this web page:
> >
> >     https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html
> >
> >     Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel,
> >     which is the previous release of R.  I'd recommend backing out of R
> >     3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you.
> >
> >     Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from
> Github,
> >     which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the
> errors,
> >     but that would require an installation from source, which not every
> >     Windows user is comfortable with.
> >
> >     Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >
> > On 26-Apr-2018 9:44 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.duncan using gmail.com
> > <mailto:murdoch.duncan using gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote:
> >      > Dear A.K. Singh,
> >      >
> >      > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R
> >     3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the
> >     package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package
> >     from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R
> >     package-building tools for Windows. See
> >     <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>.
> >      >
> >      > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have
> >     contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've
> >     placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at
> >     <
> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>.
> >     You should be able to install the package from there via the command
> >      >
> >      >
> >       install.packages("
> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip",
> repos=NULL, type="win.binary")
> >      >
> >      > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of
> >     the data.table package fixes the error.
> >
> >     You can see the errors in the package on this web page:
> >
> >     https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html
> >
> >     Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel,
> >     which is the previous release of R.  I'd recommend backing out of R
> >     3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you.
> >
> >     Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from
> Github,
> >     which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the
> errors,
> >     but that would require an installation from source, which not every
> >     Windows user is comfortable with.
> >
> >
> >     Duncan Murdoch
> >
> >
>
>

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