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data.table not available as win binary for R 3.5

3 messages · Joris Meys, Jeroen Ooms, Mark van der Loo

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Joris Meys
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Dear all,

to my astonishment data.table cannot be installed on R 3.5 Windows. When
checking the package page, the Windows binary is available for download.
When checking the server however, I can't seem to find data.table. Also
install.packages() says the package is only available in source form and
may need compilation.

Compiling using Rtools 35 is no problem.

Is this merely an issue of CRAN still moving packages around and should I
have a bit more patience, or is there another reason why data.table
currently isn't installable using install.packages() as a binary on Windows?

PS: I obviously set my repos to the official CRAN server to rule out sync
issues between mirrors.

Cheers
Joris
Jeroen Ooms
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On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 7:26 AM, Joris Meys <Joris.Meys at ugent.be> wrote:
The package check page for data.table shows that is currently failing
CMD check. As a precaution, CRAN does not publish binaries for
packages that do not pass check, so I think this is why it seems
unavailable.
Mark van der Loo
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FWIW, I see that stringdist also doesn't pass R CMD check on r-release and
r-devel on Windows while Linux or r-oldrel on Windows gives no problems[1].


A quick scan of the release notes on Windows specific changes doesn't give
me a clue yet. I see the following possibly significant warning in the
output on Windows:

Warning: stack imbalance in '{', 39 then 40

I don't have a Windows PC handy where I can quickly reproduce this so if
anyone has solved similar problems it would be nice if they could be posted
here.

Best,
Mark

[1] https://cran.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_stringdist.html

Op di 24 apr. 2018 om 14:11 schreef Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms at gmail.com>: