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

Dénes Tóth toth@dene@ @end|ng |rom kogentum@hu
Thu Apr 26 23:32:45 CEST 2018


You might find this discussion useful, too:
https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/2797


On 04/26/2018 11:01 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote:
> If you're installing packages to the default location in your home
> account and you didn't remove those library folders, you still have
> you R 3.4 package installs there, e.g.
> 
>> dir(dirname(.libPaths()[1]), full.names = TRUE)
> [1] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4"
> [2] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5"
> [3] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6"
> 
> /Henrik
> 
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Akhilesh Singh
> <akhileshsingh.igkv using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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