On 6 June 2023 at 23:33, Johan Andresen wrote: | Cheers - my response mixes up the order of things: | | The suggested apt way INSTALLED INTERFLEX nicely. Lesson learned: install | dependencies from apt if a package/library isn't in apt search. | | Yes I also tried install.packages('interflex'). RStudio console complained | about the same packages like this: | ERROR: dependency 'xyz' is not available for package ''abc" | * removing '/home/............/4.3/abc' | Warning in install.packages : | installation of package 'abc' had non-zero exit status.
That can happen when a compile-from-source fails for lack of a (for compilation from source) needed -dev packages. Which is why _reliable_ and _complete_ provision of binaries is such a game changer. I have been at this for 20+ years (as it was that long ago that injected the first few r-cran-* packages into Debian). And having r2u is a complete gamechanger. I can drop into a random code repository (as today for work), run my `installDeps.r` helper to install everything, or in the demo for you just do `install.r interflex` (or, if one prefers run it as an R command via eg a simple `Rscript -e 'install.packages("interflex")'`). And getting all of that in under 30 seconds _reliably_ is pure magic. | ok, AFAIU, wanting to manage R dependencies as easily as possible suggests | using Ubuntu with r2u instead of Debian. Be my guest to evaluate this | interpretation. It would be sweet if we could do something like r2u for Debian, but for now we can't. Switching between Debian and Ubuntu is not that onerous though. Cheers, Dirk | Johan | | | | | Den tirs. 6. jun. 2023 kl. 19.58 skrev Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org>: | | | On 6 June 2023 at 19:37, Johan Andresen wrote: | | I'd like input on how to install interflex | | <https://github.com/xuyiqing/interflex> (note the instructions on its | | github). | | It says install.packages("interflex") -- did you try that? | | | The installation failed on stable/bullseye, also when I updated to the | | newer R version 4.3.0 through secure apt and the additional source.list | | <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#secure-apt> element. | | 1. $ `sudo apt r-base-dev` | | 2. RStudio install.packages('pacman') | | 3. RStudio pacman::p_load('interflex') | | Sorry but that is non-standard and not what a) the R documentation suggests | or b) the package itself suggests. You're on your own there; maybe try the | RStudio / posit help forums for pacman. | | My preference these days is r2u (on Ubuntu 22.04) and a quick | | $ time docker run --rm -ti rocker/r2u:22.04 install.r interflex | | succeeded in 22 seconds (!!) installing a total of 91 (!!) different .deb | packages. I like r2u a _lot_ for this ease, speed and reliability of fully | dependency-declared .deb packages (for Ubuntu 22.04 and 20.04, NOT for | Debian). See https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u/ for more. | | | Warning messages: | | | | > 1: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | > installation of package 'nloptr' had non-zero exit status | | > 2: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | > installation of package 'lme4' had non-zero exit status | | > 3: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | > installation of package 'pbkrtest' had non-zero exit status | | > 4: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | > installation of package 'car' had non-zero exit status | | > 5: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | | | installation of package 'AER' had non-zero exit status | | > 6: In utils::install.packages(package, ...) : | | > installation of package 'interflex' had non-zero exit status | | > 7: In p_install(package, character.only = TRUE, ...) : | | > 8: In library(package, lib.loc = lib.loc, character.only = TRUE, | | > logical.return = TRUE, : | | > there is no package called 'interflex' | | > 9: In pacman::p_load("interflex") : Failed to install/load: | | > interflex | | There is a saying that you try to walk before you run. _Many_ of those | packages failing to install from source (== harder, you need dependencies, | and also slower) are in fact available as r-cran-xyz package for | Debian. Try 'apt-cache search r-cran-xyz' for different values of xyz. | | Cheers, Dirk | | -- | dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | -- dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian