Errors in R package installation

Thanks Eric - I had tried this and failed with

install.packages('callr',destdir='c:/myRLib')
Installing package into ?C:/myRLib?
(as ?lib? is unspecified)

  There is a binary version available but the source version is
  later:
      binary source needs_compilation
callr  3.3.2  3.4.0             FALSE

installing the source package ?callr?

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/callr_3.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 100129 bytes (97 KB)
downloaded 97 KB

* installing *source* package 'callr' ...
** package 'callr' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\Users\David': No such file or directory

ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'callr'
* removing 'C:/myRLib/callr'
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ?callr? had non-zero exit status

I also tried

install.packages('callr',lib='c:/myRLib',destdir='c:/myRLib')

with the same result. There's something more here that I'm unable to discover.

Best
David
On 12/12/2019 8:56 AM, Eric Berger wrote:

Apparently it does not like that the fact that your user 'David
Stevens' has a blank.
Looking at the documentation ?install.packages
it seems that if you modify your call to something like

install.packages('callr',destdir='C:\tmp')

you might be ok. (caveat: I did not try this)

You should make the directory C:\tmp (or whatever you use instead)
before you issue this call.

HTH,
Eric

On Thu, Dec 12, 2019 at 5:48 PM David Stevens <david.stevens at usu.edu><mailto:david.stevens at usu.edu> wrote:


Certain R packages will not install properly on my Windows 10 computer. For example, if I

install.packages('callr')

The result is

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/callr_3.4.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 100129 bytes (97 KB)
downloaded 97 KB

Warning: invalid package 'C:\Users\David'
Warning: invalid package 'Stevens\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpk5NqrI/downloaded_packages/callr_3.4.0.tar.gz'
Error: ERROR: no packages specified
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ?callr? had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
        ?C:\Users\David Stevens\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpk5NqrI\downloaded_packages?

both using RStudio 1.2.5019 and the Rgui.exe 3.6.2. I look in the download folder and the callr_3.4.0.tar.gz is there but the installer can't find it. This happens on only a subset of packages I install or update. I assume the cause is the space in my name in the c:\users folder. I've been unable to locate the environment variable or registry value that routes the tar.gz files to this location. Any ideas on how to fix this? This is a relatively recent issue (i.e. I never saw it before November - I've used R for ~15 years).

Best regards

David Stevens



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