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[Bioc-devel] Experiment packages fail on Windows

1 message · Laurent Gatto

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Installing GO.db or org.Hs.eg.db fail with the error

ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'GO.db'

This happens with 

BiocManager::install("GO.db") 

and when installing by hand.
Installing package into ?C:/Users/margo/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.5?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'GO.db' ...
** this is package 'GO.db' version '3.21.0'
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'GO.db'
* removing 'C:/Users/margo/AppData/Local/R/win-library/4.5/GO.db'
Warning message:
In utils::install.packages("C:/Users/margo/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpSe8bvM/downloaded_packages/GO.db_3.21.0.tar.gz",  :
  installation of package ?C:/Users/margo/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpSe8bvM/downloaded_packages/GO.db_3.21.0.tar.gz? had non-zero exit status

Installing by hand allowed to catch one issue related to xml2 source installation.
R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 26100)

Matrix products: default
 ?LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Belgium.utf8 ?LC_CTYPE=English_Belgium.utf8 ? 
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_Belgium.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
[5] LC_TIME=English_Belgium.utf8 ? ?

time zone: Europe/Brussels
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats ? ? graphics ?grDevices utils ? ? datasets ?methods ? base ? ? 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] BiocManager_1.30.26 compiler_4.5.1 ? ? ?fastmap_1.2.0 ? ? ?
 [4] cli_3.6.5 ? ? ? ? ? htmltools_0.5.8.1 ? tools_4.5.1 ? ? ? ?
 [7] rstudioapi_0.17.1 ? yaml_2.3.10 ? ? ? ? rmarkdown_2.30 ? ? 
[10] knitr_1.50 ? ? ? ? ?xfun_0.53 ? ? ? ? ? digest_0.6.37 ? ? ?
[13] rlang_1.1.6 ? ? ? ? evaluate_1.0.5 ? ?

Any idea?

Thank you in advance,

Laurent