Well, I just uninstalled the devtools that I had installed from github
and ran
install.packages("devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
No error message this time; the install went just fine.
The explanation may lie in the plethora of packages that I re-installed
when I invoked
remotes::install_github("r-lib/devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
This probably relates to Simon Urbanek's advice to re-install all
packages in my local library. Which I will make sure to do in future.
Previously I got an error message from
install.packages("devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
but now of course I cannot reproduce it.
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:30:20 -0500
Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
> These days, I strongly recommend r2u [1]. As you already use R via
> CRAN through apt, r2u adds one more repository after which _all_ R
> packages are handled via the same apt operations that you already
> trust to get you R from CRAN (as well as anything else on your
> machine). This covers all 20+ thousand CRAN packages along with 400
> key BioC packages. Handling your packages with your system package
> managed guarantees all dependencies are resolved reliably and
> quickly. It makes installing, upgrading, managing CRAN package
> easier, faster and more reliable.
<SNIP>
> [1] https://eddelbuettel.github.io/r2u
<SNIP>
Sounds promising, but I cannot follow what "r2u" is actually
all about. What *is* r2u? And how do I go about using it? Do I
invoke it (or invoke something) from within R? Or do I invoke
something from the OS? E.g. something like
sudo apt-get install <what???>
???
I have downloaded the file add_cranapt_jammy.sh and executed
sudo sh add_cranapt_jammy.sh
which seemed to run OK. What now?
cheers,
Rolf
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Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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