Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Larry Johnson
I'll put that in my notes. Thanks! ​Larry Johnson Editor and Publisher Cobb County Courier 404-664-2034 http://cobbcountycourier.com From: Hadley Wickham Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2021 7:14 PM To: Larry Johnson Cc: Duncan Murdoch ; r-help@r-project.org

Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Hadley Wickham
If this happens again in the future, you might try the development version of pak: install.packages("pak", repos = "https://r-lib.github.io/p/pak/dev/;) pak::pak("tidyverse") pak automatically diagnoses a number of common problems that causes install.packages() to fail. Hadley On Sun, Apr 25,

Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Larry Johnson
It was pointed out to me by Jeff Newmiller that I should have been hitting "reply all" so that others could see the thread and make comment, corrections, or benefit from any solution. So, I'm going to summarize the end result. Duncan Murdoch walked me through some diagnostic steps, and what

Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Jeff Newmiller
These are all contributed packages... don't file a bug report on R. Also, tidyverse is a rediculously sprawling meta-package that seems prone to faulty dependency data. If you have a oroblem getting the right version of broom then focus on solving that. One possibility is that your CRAN mirror

Re: [R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Duncan Murdoch
On 25/04/2021 10:52 a.m., Larry Johnson wrote: Hi. Short version. tidyverse disappeared from my packages, and won't install. The initial failure stated I had an outdated broom package, but updates are failing too, not just on broom, but on all packages, and there is no meaningful error

[R] help finding a starting point to diagnose inability to install or update packages

2021-04-25 Thread Larry Johnson
Hi. Short version. tidyverse disappeared from my packages, and won't install. The initial failure stated I had an outdated broom package, but updates are failing too, not just on broom, but on all packages, and there is no meaningful error output on the installation failures. I typically use