[R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being installed
Fox, John
j|ox @end|ng |rom mcm@@ter@c@
Fri Apr 27 15:18:48 CEST 2018
Dear Peter,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pdalgd using gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 8:47 AM
> To: Dénes Tóth <toth.denes using kogentum.hu>
> Cc: Akhilesh Singh <akhileshsingh.igkv using gmail.com>; r-help mailing list <r-
> help using r-project.org>; Fox, John <jfox using mcmaster.ca>
> Subject: Re: [R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being
> installed
>
> Hmm, looks like that thread has more noise than signal...
>
> AFAICT, data.table currently fails selftests i 3.5.0 on all platforms on the CRAN
> builders, so RTools issues are only incidental and it would be better to fix
> data.table in the sources.
Yes. Using Rtools to install the package from source or installing the binary I provided is just a band-aid that allows packages with dependencies on data.table (direct or indirect) to load.
Best,
John
>
> From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if the root cause is the changes to
> POSIXlt methods in 3.5.0, but I haven't actually been digging in to check that.
>
> - Peter D.
>
> > On 26 Apr 2018, at 23:32 , Dénes Tóth <toth.denes using kogentum.hu> wrote:
> >
> > 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.ht
> >>>>> ml
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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.ht
> >>>>> ml
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 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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