R help - Oct 2022 - ggplot2 install.package

Dear R members

 

I am working with RStudio R 4.2.0 and using ggplot2 and gridExtra. 

Since some windows updates I get some error when loading  ggplot2.

*	It seems that I am able to install ggplot2. The problem is when
loading ggplot2 with library().
*	Do you have any ideas to solve the problem?

 

 

Kind regards

Sibylle

 

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install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE)

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently
installed. Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools
before proceeding:



https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/Rtools/

Installiere Paket nach ?C:/Users/Sibylle
St?ckli/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2?

(da ?lib? nicht spezifiziert)

trying URL
'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/4.2/ggplot2_3.3.6.zip'

Content type 'application/zip' length 4122980 bytes (3.9 MB)

downloaded 3.9 MB



Paket ?ggplot2? erfolgreich ausgepackt und MD5 Summen abgeglichen



Die heruntergeladenen Bin?rpakete sind in 

                C:\Users\Sibylle
St?ckli\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpcBknba\downloaded_packages

Error in nchar(homeDir) : invalid multibyte string, element 1


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Can you please provide us with a copy of the error msg? I have used ggplot2 with
R 4.2.1, and probably R 4.2.0 in RStudio on Windows 11 and not had trouble. You
might need to update R, or RStudio. R and RStudio need to be compatible
versions.

Tim

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Dear R members



I am working with RStudio R 4.2.0 and using ggplot2 and gridExtra.

Since some windows updates I get some error when loading  ggplot2.

*       It seems that I am able to install ggplot2. The problem is when
loading ggplot2 with library().
*       Do you have any ideas to solve the problem?





Kind regards

Sibylle



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******************************

install.packages("ggplot2", dependencies = TRUE)

WARNING: Rtools is required to build R packages but is not currently installed.
Please download and install the appropriate version of Rtools before proceeding:



https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcran.rstudio.com%2Fbin%2Fwindows%2FRtools%2F&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C05f8820150e648d4f29108daab015484%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C638010323276937614%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=PKqDjS%2FEfL4Mtho3TRywJUuy%2FpGQ9A3seBjgGr6IScM%3D&amp;reserved=0

Installiere Paket nach  C:/Users/Sibylle St ckli/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.2

(da  lib  nicht spezifiziert)

trying URL
'https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcran.rstudio.com%2Fbin%2Fwindows%2Fcontrib%2F4.2%2Fggplot2_3.3.6.zip&amp;data=05%7C01%7Ctebert%40ufl.edu%7C05f8820150e648d4f29108daab015484%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C638010323276937614%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=b5dcFImQLYrE850p5SnbOyibj9KV0JrZIvfL8trNI84%3D&amp;reserved=0'

Content type 'application/zip' length 4122980 bytes (3.9 MB)

downloaded 3.9 MB



Paket  ggplot2  erfolgreich ausgepackt und MD5 Summen abgeglichen



Die heruntergeladenen Bin rpakete sind in

                C:\Users\Sibylle
St ckli\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpcBknba\downloaded_packages

Error in nchar(homeDir) : invalid multibyte string, element 1


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On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:32:33 +0200
<sibylle.stoeckli at gmx.ch> wrote:
> Error in nchar(homeDir) : invalid multibyte string, element 1
I searched for nchar(homeDir) in the R source code and on CRAN (as
indexed by GitHub), and the only CRAN match was probably unrelated (in
the ibmdbR package).

There's also a few matches in the RStudio source code:
https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/3742521ab2e67528090358a42d9f13933f4400df/src/cpp/session/modules/SessionPackages.R

A search of "nchar(homeDir)" on RStudio website gives a lot of
seemingly relevant results.

However, I don't see them doing anything obviously wrong. This could be
related to stricter handling of invalid strings that was recently
improved in R:
https://blog.r-project.org/2022/10/10/improvements-in-handling-bytes-encoding/

What does path.expand("~/") return on your machine? What is
Encoding(.)
of the value? What are its actual byte values, i.e. charToRaw(.)? What
is your sessionInfo()?

-- 
Best regards,
Ivan