On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 6:14 AM Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 10 July 2019 at 05:53, Alex Hallam wrote: > | I am working on a data package. Due to the size of the package I opted > | to store the package as a drat repo. > | > | I am able to install my package locally, but I can't seem to install the > | package > | from the drat repo. The error I get is: > | > | ``` > | Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ > | (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) > | trying URL ' > | https://alexhallam.github.io/drat/src/contrib/cfsalesdata_0.0.1.1.tar.gz > ' > | Content type 'application/gzip' length 134 bytes > | ================================================== > | downloaded 134 bytes > | > | Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) : > | incomplete block on file > | Warning in install.packages : > | installation of package ‘cfsalesdata’ had non-zero exit status > | ``` > | > | These are the commands I used to install my data package. The local > | install works, but my two attempts at installing from a remote repo > failed. > | > | # This works on my local computer > | install.packages(file.choose(),repos = NULL, type = "source") > | > | # Install from remote (fails) > | install.packages("cfsalesdata",repos = " > https://alexhallam.github.io/drat/";, > | type = "source") > | > | # Install from remote with drat (fails) > | library(drat) > | addRepo("alexhallam") > | install.packages("cfsalesdata") > | > | My hunch is that this has to do with the tar ball being tracked with "git > | large file storage". This is because the file size of my tar ball is > 154.9 > | MB which exceeds github's 100 MB file size limit. What options can I try > in > | this situation? > > Shucks. Should have realized the >100gb issue when I reocmmended drat. We > have GH LFS support as a feature request issue, but I cannot / will not > work > on it as I do not have such files or repos ... > > Easiest hack: split your data package into chunks < 100gb and use standard > more. > > Sorry about that, Dirk > > -- > http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org > Thanks everyone. I will go ahead and split the repo into a couple pieces. -- Thanks! -Alex [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
