Hmm, looks like that thread has more noise than signal... AFAICT, data.table currently fails selftests i 3.5.0 on all platforms on the CRAN builders, so RTools issues are only incidental and it would be better to fix data.table in the sources.
>From the looks of it, I wouldn't be surprised if the root cause is the changes >to POSIXlt methods in 3.5.0, but I haven't actually been digging in to check >that. - Peter D. > On 26 Apr 2018, at 23:32 , Dénes Tóth <toth.de...@kogentum.hu> wrote: > > You might find this discussion useful, too: > https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/2797 > > > On 04/26/2018 11:01 PM, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: >> If you're installing packages to the default location in your home >> account and you didn't remove those library folders, you still have >> you R 3.4 package installs there, e.g. >>> dir(dirname(.libPaths()[1]), full.names = TRUE) >> [1] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4" >> [2] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.5" >> [3] "/home/hb/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.6" >> /Henrik >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 11:41 AM, Akhilesh Singh >> <akhileshsingh.i...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> You are right. I do take backups. But, this time I was too sure that >>> nothing will go wrong. But, this was over-confidence. I need to take more >>> care in future. Thanks anyway. >>> >>> With regards, >>> >>> Dr. A.K. Singh >>> >>> On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 11:49 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 26/04/2018 1:54 PM, Akhilesh Singh wrote: >>>>> My thanks to Dr. John Fox and Dr. Duncan Murdoch. But, I have upgraded >>>>> all my R-3.4.3 libraries to R-3.5.0, and I have not backed-up copies of >>>>> old version. So, I would give a try each to the solutions suggested by >>>>> John Fox and Dengan Murdoch. >>>> >>>> Here is some unsolicited advice: I would strongly recommend that you >>>> make it a higher priority to have backups available. In my experience >>>> computer hardware is becoming quite reliable, but software isn't, and >>>> the person next to the keyboard isn't either. (My last desperate need >>>> for a backup was due to a hardware failure 2 years ago, but it wasn't >>>> the manufacturer's fault: my laptop accidentally drowned.) >>>> >>>> Backups can save you a lot of grief in the event of a mistake, or a >>>> software or hardware failure. But even in the case of routine events >>>> like software updates that don't go as planned, they can save time. >>>> >>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> With regards, >>>>> >>>>> Dr. A.K. Singh >>>>> >>>>> On Thu 26 Apr, 2018, 9:44 PM Duncan Murdoch, <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote: >>>>> > Dear A.K. Singh, >>>>> > >>>>> > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R >>>>> 3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the >>>>> package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package >>>>> from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R >>>>> package-building tools for Windows. See >>>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>. >>>>> > >>>>> > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have >>>>> contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've >>>>> placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at >>>>> < >>>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>. >>>>> You should be able to install the package from there via the command >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> install.packages(" >>>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip", >>>> repos=NULL, type="win.binary") >>>>> > >>>>> > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of >>>>> the data.table package fixes the error. >>>>> >>>>> You can see the errors in the package on this web page: >>>>> >>>>> https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html >>>>> >>>>> Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel, >>>>> which is the previous release of R. I'd recommend backing out of R >>>>> 3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you. >>>>> >>>>> Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from >>>> Github, >>>>> which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the >>>> errors, >>>>> but that would require an installation from source, which not every >>>>> Windows user is comfortable with. >>>>> >>>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 26-Apr-2018 9:44 PM, "Duncan Murdoch" <murdoch.dun...@gmail.com >>>>> <mailto:murdoch.dun...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 26/04/2018 10:33 AM, Fox, John wrote: >>>>> > Dear A.K. Singh, >>>>> > >>>>> > As you discovered, the data.table package has an error under R >>>>> 3.5.0 that prevents CRAN from distributing a Windows binary for the >>>>> package. The reason that you weren't able to install the package >>>>> from source is apparently that you haven't installed the R >>>>> package-building tools for Windows. See >>>>> <https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/>. >>>>> > >>>>> > Because a number of users of my Rcmdr and car packages have >>>>> contacted me with a similar issue, as a temporary work-around I've >>>>> placed a Windows binary for the data.table package on my website at >>>>> < >>>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip>. >>>>> You should be able to install the package from there via the command >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> install.packages(" >>>> https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip", >>>> repos=NULL, type="win.binary") >>>>> > >>>>> > I expect that this problem will go away when the maintainer of >>>>> the data.table package fixes the error. >>>>> >>>>> You can see the errors in the package on this web page: >>>>> >>>>> https://cloud.r-project.org/web/checks/check_results_data.table.html >>>>> >>>>> Currently it is failing self-tests on all platforms except r-oldrel, >>>>> which is the previous release of R. I'd recommend backing out of R >>>>> 3.5.0 and going to R 3.4.4 if that's a possibility for you. >>>>> >>>>> Yet another possibility is to use a version of data.table from >>>> Github, >>>>> which is newer than the version on CRAN and may have fixed the >>>> errors, >>>>> but that would require an installation from source, which not every >>>>> Windows user is comfortable with. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Duncan Murdoch >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >>> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >>> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. -- Peter Dalgaard, Professor, Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Phone: (+45)38153501 Office: A 4.23 Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.