> Stephen P Carrier via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> hat am 2023-11-28 06:01 CET > geschrieben: > > > I would like to report an issue with install.packages() experienced today > using the current R package. > > I installed R 4.3.0 on system: > > # uname -rs > CYGWIN_NT-10.0-20348 3.4.9-1.x86_64 > > I tried to install the DBI package, DBI_1.1.3.tar.gz, downloaded from a > mirror. > > I used > > install.packages("/path/to/DBI_1.1.13.tar.gz", repos = NULL); > > What happens is: > > ----- > Installing package into ‘/usr/lib/R/site-library’ > (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > During startup - Warning message: > package ‘stats’ in options("defaultPackages") was not found > * installing *source* package ‘DBI’ ... > ** package ‘DBI’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked > ** using staged installation > Error : Invalid DESCRIPTION file > > Malformed maintainer field. > > See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions' > manual. > ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package ‘DBI’ > ----- > > I looked in the manual to see what DESCRIPTION files should look like. The > encoding is specified as UTF-8 in the file so the umlauts sprinkled > throughout should be fine. The 'Maintainer:' line contains an umlaut, I > removed it, after which the package installed without error. Umlauts > elsewhere in the DESCRIPTION file are not a problem. > > Seems like a bug. I don't have R 4.3.0 installed on a Linux system to test > if the bug is upstream from Cygwin, and my immediate problem is solved with > a simple workaround. > > Thanks to all for maintaining this fine product (Cygwin kernel and all the > packages). > > --Stephen Carrier >
Hi Stephen, I came across this type of error with R on Cygwin, but not on FreeBSD or Linux. I'm still running R version 3.6.3 on Cygwin (I don't have root permissions on this box, so I'm forced to upgrade very infrequently) and I have positively seen this error when I set up my current installation. I use the same R packages on my Unix boxes at home and have never seen such an error. I don't think this is an upstream error. Unfortunately this is above my head to debug. regards, Markus -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple