R help - Mar 2024 - Building Packages.

? Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:02:27 +0000
Jorgen Harmse via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> ?????:
> > install.packages(tar,type='source',repos=NULL)  
> 
> Error in library(jhBase) : there is no package called ?jhBase?
> 
> Execution halted
> 
> Warning in install.packages(tar, type = "source", repos = NULL) :
> 
>   installation of package
> ?/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz?
> had non-zero exit status
Using RStudio? It happens to override install.packages with a function
that doesn't quite handle file paths. Try utils::install.packages(tar,
type = "source", repos = NULL).

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan

Ivan, can you give more detail on this? I've heard this issue 
mentioned, but when I open RStudio and run find("install.packages") it
returns "utils::install.packages", and running dump() from within 
RStudio console and from an external "R --vanilla" gives identical
results.

   I thought at one point this might only refer to the GUI 
package-installation interface, but you seem to be saying it's the 
install.packages() function as well.

   Running an up-to-date RStudio on Linux, FWIW -- maybe weirdness only 
happens on other OSs?

    Ben Bolker

On 2024-03-20 12:13 p.m., Ivan Krylov via R-help wrote:
> ? Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:02:27 +0000
> Jorgen Harmse via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> ?????:
> 
>>> install.packages(tar,type='source',repos=NULL)
>>
>> Error in library(jhBase) : there is no package called ?jhBase?
>>
>> Execution halted
>>
>> Warning in install.packages(tar, type = "source", repos =
NULL) :
>>
>>    installation of package
>>
?/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz?
>> had non-zero exit status
> 
> Using RStudio? It happens to override install.packages with a function
> that doesn't quite handle file paths. Try utils::install.packages(tar,
> type = "source", repos = NULL).
>

Thank you, but I think I was already using utils.

Regards,
Jorgen.

> environment(install.packages)
<environment: namespace:utils>
>
utils::install.packages('/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz',type='source',repos=NULL)
Error in library(jhBase) : there is no package called ?jhBase?

Execution halted

Warning in
utils::install.packages("/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz",
:

  installation of package
?/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz? had
non-zero exit status


From: Ivan Krylov <ikrylov at disroot.org>
Date: Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 11:14
To: Jorgen Harmse via R-help <r-help at r-project.org>
Cc: Jorgen Harmse <JHarmse at roku.com>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R] Building Packages.
? Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:02:27 +0000
Jorgen Harmse via R-help <r-help at r-project.org> ?????:
> > install.packages(tar,type='source',repos=NULL)
>
> Error in library(jhBase) : there is no package called ?jhBase?
>
> Execution halted
>
> Warning in install.packages(tar, type = "source", repos = NULL) :
>
>   installation of package
> ?/Users/jharmse/Library/CloudStorage/OneDrive-RokuInc/jhBase_1.0.1.tar.gz?
> had non-zero exit status
Using RStudio? It happens to override install.packages with a function
that doesn't quite handle file paths. Try utils::install.packages(tar,
type = "source", repos = NULL).

--
Best regards,
Ivan

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