Install failure on Windows

[mattiasaine]

Ran into an issue with installation of RBIoFormats on Windows (R 3.6.2).

The installation buggs out if both i386 and x64 versions of R are installed. Think it might be related to something like this issue.

Works fine after I uninstall R and select x64-only on reinstall.

[aoles]

Thank you for reporting the problem. Do you happen to recall the error message you were getting?

Cheers,
Andrzej

[mattiasaine]

Tried recreating on other windows machine. This already had RBioFormats installed in R 3.5.3 but with both i386 and x64 installed.

But installed 3.6.2 from scratch with i386+x64 and installation did not finish. Threw error "Invalid maximum heap size: -Xmx8g". This is not the same as I got on my other machine. But this was because I have set an environment variable with higher xmx than 32-bit Java can handle. When I changed Xmx to 1g it installed fine.

With the other machine the final error was the same "ERROR: loading failed for 'i386'" but here I hadn't set environment variables yet so think it might be some other issue. Only diff between machines I can think of is that the one that worked by lowering Xmx has both 32-bit and 64-bit java (+64-bit jdk) installed while the machine that required I do install with only x64-R has only 64-bit java/jdk. Or maybe I just did something different today...

Hope this helps!