can not install devtools in R4.4.1

[BenxiaHu]

can not install devtools in R4.4.1

[jennybc]

I can.

> R.version.string
[1] "R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)"
> install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into '/Users/jenny/Library/R/arm64/4.4/library'
(as 'lib' is unspecified)
trying URL '[https://p3m.dev/cran/latest/bin/macosx/big-sur-arm64/contrib/4.4/devtools_2.4.5.tgz](vscode-file://vscode-app/Users/jenny/rrr/positron/out/vs/code/electron-sandbox/workbench/workbench-dev.html#)'
Content type 'binary/octet-stream' length 437353 bytes (427 KB)
=====================================
downloaded 427 KB


The downloaded binary packages are in
	/tmp/RtmpMGyMdU/downloaded_packages
> library(devtools)

So you're going to need to provide more detail.

[BenxiaHu]

here is the error

x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-ar rcs agg/libstatagg.a agg/src/agg_curves.o agg/src/agg_font_freetype.o agg/src/agg_image_filters.o agg/src/agg_trans_affine.o agg/src/agg_vcgen_dash.o agg/src/agg_vcgen_stroke.o
x86_64-conda-linux-gnu-c++ -std=gnu++17 -shared -L/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/lib -Wl,-O2 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -Wl,--disable-new-dtags -Wl,--gc-sections -Wl,--allow-shlib-undefined -Wl,-rpath,/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib -Wl,-rpath-link,/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib -L/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib -o ragg.so capture_dev.o init.o jpeg_dev.o png_dev.o ppm_dev.o tiff_dev.o -Lagg -lstatagg -lfreetype -lpng15 -ltiff -ljpeg -L/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/lib -lR
/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/14.1.0/../../../../x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/share/make/shlib.mk:10: ragg.so] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘ragg’

• removing ‘/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/library/ragg’
  ERROR: dependency ‘gert’ is not available for package ‘usethis’
• removing ‘/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/library/usethis’
  ERROR: dependency ‘ragg’ is not available for package ‘pkgdown’
• removing ‘/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/library/pkgdown’
  ERROR: dependencies ‘usethis’, ‘pkgdown’ are not available for package ‘devtools’
• removing ‘/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/lib/R/library/devtools’

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpKj1bWN/downloaded_packages’
Updating HTML index of packages in '.Library'
Making 'packages.html' ... done
Warning messages:
1: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘gert’ had non-zero exit status
2: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘ragg’ had non-zero exit status
3: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘usethis’ had non-zero exit status
4: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘pkgdown’ had non-zero exit status
5: In install.packages("devtools") :
installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

thanks.

[jennybc]

If you use conda, you need to install all of your packages from conda because they use a different toolchain than CRAN (the official distribution of R and contributed packages).

/anaconda3/envs/R4.4/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/14.1.0/../../../../x86_64-conda-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cannot find -lpng15: No such file or directory

Does your system have the PNG15 library available?

Overall, it sounds like you're (unintentionally?) trying to mix a conda-managed R installation with also installing packages from CRAN / from source, which generally does not go well.

[philibe]

In R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) I had errors during usage and re-install of devtools:

install.packages("devtools")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/devtools_2.4.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 374718 bytes (365 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 365 KB

* installing *source* package ‘devtools’ ...
** package ‘devtools’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Error: .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'pkgload', details:
  call: .make_numeric_version(x, strict, .standard_regexps()$valid_numeric_version)
  error: invalid non-character version specification 'x' (type: double)
Execution halted
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘devtools’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/devtools’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘devtools’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
	‘/tmp/RtmpbYWTeU/downloaded_packages’

I 've launched pak::pak("devtools"), like @hadley said there in #2566, and after after I've read errors:

• sudo apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev libgit2-dev
• install.packages("pkgload"), reinstall, because of .onLoad failed in loadNamespace() for 'pkgload' below.

And install.packages("devtools") and the usage of devtools work now with R version 4.4.1 :)

Found when I am trying to play with rextendr::document(), from https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rextendr/vignettes/package.html, which gave me the same error at the line devtools::r_env_vars() inside rextendr::document().

I have Anaconda but I use normal CRAN installation for R.

My post is only to give some others symptoms and tries because for me also "it sounds like you're (unintentionally?) trying to mix a conda-managed R installation with also installing packages from CRAN / from source, which generally does not go well."