"NewSysFile" not resolved from current namespace (memisc)

[lemzwerg]

[memisc 0.99.14.12]
[R version 3.3.1]
[openSuSE leap]

Loading an SPSS .sav file with

library("memisc")
data <- as.data.set(spss.system.file("foo.sav"))

results in

"NewSysFile" not resolved from current namespace (memisc)

Note that memisc has been installed into a subdirectory of ~/R/x86_64-suse-linux-gnu-library/3.3, which .libPath() properly shows.

Is this a mistake or problem on my side?

[melff]

Did you install the package in binary form? R release 3.3.3 introduced a change in the interface for packages with compiled C libraries, so that might be the cause of your troubles. In that case, installing the package from source might be the solution to your problem. But the preferable option is to upgrade your R installation. The current release of R is 3.5.1.

[lemzwerg]

No, calling install.packages("memisc") did compile the package, and the log file of a re-installation doesn't show anything suspicious.

Meanwhile I've installed a lot of packages, and all of them seem to work fine except memisc. Maybe there is a deeper issue not directly related to the R version? Is there any command output that I could send to help identify the problem?

[melff]

That is odd. I am using the package for more then ten years with SPSS
system files and this error message never showed up. Can you provide me
with the results of traceback() and/or the results of R CMD check on
the source package? None of the automatic package checking systems on
CRAN or Travis CI have R 3.3.1 anymore. Usually the oldest version these
systems use is R 3.4.0.

[lemzwerg]

Attached is the result of R CMD check memisc_0.99.14.12.tar.gz. It reports a similar (but not identical) error.

00check.log

[melff]

Symbols were made invisible by compiler flags in R relases from 3.3.0 to 3.3.2.
This is now fixed in release 0.99.16.3

[lemzwerg]

Thanks. Is this version already available on CRAN? Doing old.package() doesn't show it while using the Austrian mirror...

[melff]

It is not yet on CRAN, but you should be able to install it with devtools::install_github("melff/memisc") or (to be sure to get the release 0.99.16.3) devtools::install_github("melff/memisc",ref="0.99.16.3"). You'll need to install the "devtools" package though (available on CRAN), if you have not yet done so.

[lemzwerg]

Hmm.

> devtools::install_github("melff/memisc",ref="0.99.16.3")
Downloading GitHub repo melff/memisc@0.99.16.3
Error: Does not appear to be an R package (no DESCRIPTION)

[melff]

Sorry, the package is in the "pkg" subdirectory. It should have been devtools::install_github("melff/memisc/pkg",ref="0.99.16.3")

[lemzwerg]

Thanks. I can confirm that your fix works; I'm no able to load my .sav file.