Hi Steve, Problem solved! If I go back for more information enough times, I'm bound to start a new R session sooner or later, and that seemed to do the trick.
I'm not tech-savvy enough to use SVN. Instead I try to avoid updating software by using as little of it as possible (for R packages: just stringr and data.table). Thanks again, Frank On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Steve Lianoglou <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Frank, > > On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Frank Erickson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Steve, > > > > Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't work verbatim; I see > > > > ERROR: compilation failed for package 'data.table' > > > > and later a warning: > > > > 1: running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/R-30~1.1/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l > "U:\R" > > > C:\Users\FPERIC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\3\RtmpuWYzPl/downloaded_packages/data.table_1.8.8.tar.gz' > > had status 1 > > Hmm -- sorry, this is rather strange and I'm also not well versed in > smoking out windows compilation problems. > > Can you provide more of the installation log so we can see what the > error is, exactly? > > I say it's strange because it seems as if CRAN actually has the > compiled version of the latest version of the package for windows > there: > > http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/index.html > > In particular: > > > http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/data.table_1.8.8.zip > > Perhaps you might try changing the CRAN mirror you are using to see if > you can grab it? Or just download from the link above and install the > compiled version locally? > > As for me -- I try to keep my version of data.table tied to SVN and > periodically svn up and recompile ... I've had no compilation problems > as of late (I just recompiled now to double check), so I'm not sure > what's going on on your setup. > > Sorry that I can't be of much help here, perhaps some other windows > users can chime in. > > -steve > > -- > Steve Lianoglou > Computational Biologist > Bioinformatics and Computational Biology > Genentech >
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