Not sure on that error either, there should be an output log somewhere.
But another option is the .zip on the data.table homepage : "Last recommended dev snapshot precompiled for Windows: v1.8.9 rev874 13 May 2013 [5]" http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org/data.table_1.8.9.zip It was compiled using winbuilder but I don't recall whether winbuilder was R3 at that point. Matthew On 27.06.2013 16:55, Frank Erickson wrote: > 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] [4]> wrote: > >> Hi Frank, >> >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Frank Erickson <[email protected] [1]> 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:UsersFPERIC~1AppDataLocalTemp3RtmpuWYzPl/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 [2] >> >> In particular: >> >> http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/data.table_1.8.8.zip [3] >> >> 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 Links: ------ [1] mailto:[email protected] [2] http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/data.table/index.html [3] http://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/r-release/data.table_1.8.8.zip [4] mailto:[email protected] [5] http://datatable.r-forge.r-project.org/data.table_1.8.9.zip
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