-----Original Message-----
From: Akhilesh Singh [mailto:akhileshsingh.i...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2018 4:10 AM
To: Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca>
Cc: r-help mailing list <r-help@r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully being
installed
Dear Dr. John Fox,
The solution provided by you has worked. I downloaded the binary file of
data.table package made available your website
<https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip
<https://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/.Pickup/data.table_1.10.4-3.zip> >,
installed it in R and RStudio. And I happy to report that it has successfully
worked. Many thanks to you, and to other members of R-team who have tried
help me.
With regards,
Dr. A.K. Singh
On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 8:03 PM, Fox, John <j...@mcmaster.ca
<mailto:j...@mcmaster.ca> > 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/ <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
<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
<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.
I hope this helps,
John
--------------------------------------
John Fox, Professor Emeritus
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Web: socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/
<http://socialsciences.mcmaster.ca/jfox/>
-----Original Message-----
From: R-help [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org <mailto:r-help-
boun...@r-project.org> ] On Behalf Of Akhilesh
Singh
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2018 8:08 AM
To: r-help mailing list <r-help@r-project.org <mailto:r-help@r-
project.org> >
Subject: [R] Package 'data.table' in version R-3.5.0 not successfully
being installed
Dear Sir,
I am using R on Windows OS platform. I upgraded my R-system to
version
R-3.5.0. While upgrading my libraries in R as well as in RStudio, I am
stuck up in the package 'data.table', which is required by many
other
packages in R-codes in my R-Markdown files.
I tried to install 'data.table' from "USA-berkely" and "UK-bristol" as
well as "RStudio" mirrors when the following errors are being
shown:
From USA-berkely and UK-bristol mirrors:
=================================
Package which is only available in source form, and may need
compilation of C/C++/Fortran: ‘data.table’
These will not be installed
Warning message:
In download.file(url, destfile = f, quiet = TRUE) :
InternetOpenUrl failed: ''
From RStudio mirror:
================
Package which is only available in source form, and may need
compilation
of
C/C++/Fortran: ‘data.table’
These will not be installed
Afterwards, I consulted google users, I downloaded the source
package:
"data.table_1.10.4-3.tar.gz" from CRAN, stored it on desktop, and
tried
following command for installing from source only:
install.packages("C:\\Users\\Dr. A.K.
Singh\\Desktop\\data.table_1.10.4-3.tar.gz", repos = NULL,
type="source")
This generated following errors messages:
install.packages("C:\\Users\\Dr. A.K.
Singh\\Desktop\\data.table_1.10.4-3.tar.gz", repos = NULL,
type="source") Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Dr. A.K.
Singh/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'data.table' ...
** package 'data.table' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums
checked
** libs
Warning in system(cmd) : 'make' not found
ERROR: compilation failed for package 'data.table'
* removing 'C:/Users/Dr. A.K. Singh/Documents/R/win-
library/3.5/data.table'
* restoring previous 'C:/Users/Dr. A.K.
Singh/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/data.table'
In R CMD INSTALL
Warning message:
In install.packages("C:\\Users\\Dr. A.K.
Singh\\Desktop\\data.table_1.10.4-3.tar.gz", :
installation of package
‘C:/Users/DRAK~1.SIN/Desktop/data.table_1.10.4-3.tar.gz’ had non-
zero
exit status
I is requested to kindly help. I was writing a book using R-
Markdown.
And I am stuck up as described above.
Dr. A.K. Singh
Professor and Head
Department of Agricultural Statistics
Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya
Raipur
Chhattisgarh
India
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