G'day Rolf,
On Tue, 30 Apr 2024 01:21:15 +
Rolf Turner wrote:
> Previously I got an error message from
>
> install.packages("devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib")
>
> but now of course I cannot reproduce it.
Presumably the install.packages() invocation did not produce an error
message b
On 30 April 2024 at 01:21, Rolf Turner wrote:
| On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 06:30:20 -0500
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
|
|
|
| > 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 s
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::ins
Rolf,
This question might have been more appropriate for r-sig-debian than here.
But as Simon noted, the lack of detail makes is difficult to say anything to
aid. It likely was an issue local to your setup and use.
These days, I strongly recommend r2u [1]. As you already use R via CRAN
through
/AAb9ysg>
From: R-package-devel on behalf of
Simon Urbanek
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 7:33:55 AM
To: Rolf Turner
Cc: je...@posit.co ; r-package-devel@r-project.org
Subject: Re: [R-pkg-devel] Problem with loading package "devtools" from CRAN.
Rolf,
Rolf,
what do you mean by "broken"? Since you failed to include any proof nor details
it's unlikely that anyone can help you, but chances are pretty high that it was
a problem on your end. I just checked with R 4.4.0 on Ubuntu 22.04 and devtools
install and load just fine, so it is certainly br
G'day Rolf,
hope all is well.
On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:19:50 +
Rolf Turner wrote:
> Executive summary:
>
> > The devtools package on CRAN appears to be broken.
> > Installing devtools from github (using remotes::install_github())
> > seems to give satisfactory results.
I somehow have not
Executive summary:
> The devtools package on CRAN appears to be broken.
> Installing devtools from github (using remotes::install_github())
> seems to give satisfactory results.
This morning my software up-dater (Ubuntu 22.04.4) prompted me to
install updated versions of some software, includin