Dear Peter, > -----Original Message----- > From: peter dalgaard [mailto:pda...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 8:47 AM > To: Dénes Tóth <toth.de...@kogentum.hu> > Cc: Akhilesh Singh <akhileshsingh.i...@gmail.com>; r-help mailing list <r- > h...@r-project.org>; Fox, John <j...@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.de...@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.i...@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.dun...@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.dun...@gmail.com <mailto:murdoch.dun...@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.dun...@gmail.com > >>>>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@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 > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > >>> > >>> ______________________________________________ > >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >>> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> ______________________________________________ > >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > >> PLEASE do read the posting guide > >> http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > >> > > > > ______________________________________________ > > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > > PLEASE do read the posting guide > > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 > Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
