Hi,
I am using the R 3.6.0 on windows. The issue that I report below does not
exist with previous version of R.
In order to reproduce the error you must install a package of your choice
from source (tar.gz).
-Create a .Rprofile file with the following command in it :
setwd("D:/")
-Close your R session and re-open it. Your working directory must be now set
to D:
-Install a package of your choice from source, example :
install.packages("data.table",type="source")
In my case the package fail to install and I get the following error
message:
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error in tools:::.read_description(file) :
file 'DESCRIPTION' does not exist
Calls: suppressPackageStartupMessages ... withCallingHandlers ->
.getRequiredPackages -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous>
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'data.table'
* removing 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table'
* restoring previous
'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ?data.table? had non-zero exit status
Now remove the .Rprofile file, restart your R session and try to install the
package with the same command.
In that case everything should be installed just fine.
FYI the issue happens on macOS as well and I suspect it also does on all
linux systems.
My question: Is this expected or is it a bug?
Thank you
Best regards,
Morgan
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Hello,
I have exactly the same problem when I install one of my own packages:
Error in tools:::.read_description(file) :
file 'DESCRIPTION' does not exist
Calls: suppressPackageStartupMessages ... withCallingHandlers ->
.getRequiredPackages -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous>
Ex?cution arr?t?e
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'RRegArch'
Best,
Ollivier
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Envoy? : lundi 29 avril 2019 22:43
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Objet : [R] Bug in R 3.6.0?
Hi,
I am using the R 3.6.0 on windows. The issue that I report below does not exist
with previous version of R.
In order to reproduce the error you must install a package of your choice from
source (tar.gz).
-Create a .Rprofile file with the following command in it :
setwd("D:/") -Close your R session and re-open it. Your working
directory must be now set to D:
-Install a package of your choice from source, example :
install.packages("data.table",type="source")
In my case the package fail to install and I get the following error
message:
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading Error in
tools:::.read_description(file) :
file 'DESCRIPTION' does not exist
Calls: suppressPackageStartupMessages ... withCallingHandlers ->
.getRequiredPackages -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> Execution
halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'data.table'
* removing 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table'
* restoring previous
'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table'
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ?data.table? had non-zero exit status
Now remove the .Rprofile file, restart your R session and try to install the
package with the same command.
In that case everything should be installed just fine.
FYI the issue happens on macOS as well and I suspect it also does on all linux
systems.
My question: Is this expected or is it a bug?
Thank you
Best regards,
Morgan
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>>>>> Morgan Morgan >>>>> on Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:42:36 +0100 writes:> Hi, > I am using the R 3.6.0 on windows. The issue that I report below does not > exist with previous version of R. > In order to reproduce the error you must install a package of your choice > from source (tar.gz). > -Create a .Rprofile file with the following command in it : setwd("D:/") > -Close your R session and re-open it. Your working directory must be now set > to D: > -Install a package of your choice from source, example : > install.packages("data.table",type="source") > In my case the package fail to install and I get the following error > message: > ** R > ** inst > ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading > Error in tools:::.read_description(file) : > file 'DESCRIPTION' does not exist > Calls: suppressPackageStartupMessages ... withCallingHandlers -> > .getRequiredPackages -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> > Execution halted > ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'data.table' > * removing 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table' > * restoring previous > 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table' > Warning in install.packages : > installation of package ?data.table? had non-zero exit status > Now remove the .Rprofile file, restart your R session and try to install th e > package with the same command. > In that case everything should be installed just fine. > FYI the issue happens on macOS as well and I suspect it also does on all > linux systems. > My question: Is this expected or is it a bug? It is a bug, thank you very much for reporting it. I've been told privately by ?mer An (thank you!) who's been affected as well, that this problem seems to affect others, and that there's a thread about this over at the Rstudio support site https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/200704708-Build-tool-does-not-recognize-DESCRIPTION-file There, users mention that (all?) packages are affected which have a multiline 'Description:' field in their DESCRIPTION file. Of course, many if not most packages have this property. Indeed, I can reproduce the problem (e.g. with my 'sfsmisc' package) if I ("silly enough to") add a setwd() call to my Rprofile file (the one I set via env.var R_PROFILE or R_PROFILE_USER). This is clearly a bug, and indeed a bad one. It seems all R core (and other R expert users who have tried R 3.6.0 alpha, beta, and RC versions) have *not* seen the bug as they are intuitively smart not to mess with R's working directory in a global R profile file ... For now you definitively have to work around by not doing what's the problem : do *NOT* setwd() in your ~/.Rprofile or other such R init files. Best, Martin Maechler ETH Zurich and R Core Team