Dear All, I have a fresh Debian Stretch (now the official Debian stable) installation on my machine. Based on what written here https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/debian/#debian-jessie-stable I added the line deb https://stat.ethz.ch/CRAN/bin/linux/debian stretch-cran34/ to my sources in order to have a backport of R 3.4. The issue is that I am now experiencing some troubles to install some packages from cran which did not give me any trouble in the past. The worst is that all I get is an uninformative segmentation fault error. For instance, consider the RJSDMX package
install.packages("RJSDMX")
Installing package into ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library? (as ?lib? is unspecified) --- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session --- trying URL 'https://lib.ugent.be/CRAN/src/contrib/RJSDMX_1.7.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 155642 bytes (151 KB) ================================================== downloaded 151 KB * installing *source* package ?RJSDMX? ... ** package ?RJSDMX? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** R ** demo ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded Segmentation fault ERROR: loading failed * removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RJSDMX? The downloaded source packages are in ?/tmp/RtmpkjeaiB/downloaded_packages? Warning message: In install.packages("RJSDMX") : installation of package ?RJSDMX? had non-zero exit status or the openNLP data
install.packages("openNLPdata")
Installing package into ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library? (as ?lib? is unspecified) trying URL 'https://lib.ugent.be/CRAN/src/contrib/openNLPdata_1.5.3-2.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 7318681 bytes (7.0 MB) ================================================== downloaded 7.0 MB * installing *source* package ?openNLPdata? ... ** package ?openNLPdata? successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading ** help No man pages found in package ?openNLPdata? *** installing help indices ** building package indices ** testing if installed package can be loaded Segmentation fault ERROR: loading failed * removing ?/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/openNLPdata? The downloaded source packages are in ?/tmp/RtmpkjeaiB/downloaded_packages? Warning message: In install.packages("openNLPdata") : installation of package ?openNLPdata? had non-zero exit status I enclose also my sessionInfo data
sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21) Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit) Running under: Debian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch) Matrix products: default BLAS: /usr/lib/libblas/libblas.so.3.7.0 LAPACK: /usr/lib/lapack/liblapack.so.3.7.0 locale: [1] LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 LC_NUMERIC=C [3] LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.utf8 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_GB.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.utf8 [7] LC_PAPER=en_GB.utf8 LC_NAME=C [9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_GB.utf8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0 tcltk_3.4.0 Is anybody else having similar troubles? I would like to add that I can install other fairly complicated packages (like tidyverse), so I am really puzzled. Any suggestion is welcome. Many thanks Lorenzo