init() fails under Windows due dependency build failures

[IanWorthington]

Windows cannot build the latest versions of three dependencies, causing the init() to fail:

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renv::init()

Welcome to renv!
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• Resolving missing dependencies ...
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  The following package(s) were not installed successfully:

  [stringi]: install of package 'stringi' failed
  [ps]: install of package 'ps' failed
  [rlang]: install of package 'rlang' failed

You may need to manually download and install these packages.
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install.packages("stringi")
Retrieving 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/stringi_1.5.3.tar.gz' ...
OK [file is up to date]
Installing stringi [1.5.3] ...
FAILED
Error installing package 'stringi':
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• installing source package 'stringi' ...
  ** package 'stringi' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  Warning in system("sh ./configure.win") : 'sh' not found
  ERROR: configuration failed for package 'stringi'
• removing 'C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/staging/1/stringi'
  Error: install of package 'stringi' failed

install.packages("ps")
Retrieving 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/ps_1.4.0.tar.gz' ...
OK [file is up to date]
Installing ps [1.4.0] ...
FAILED
Error installing package 'ps':
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• installing source package 'ps' ...
  ** package 'ps' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  Warning in system("sh ./configure.win") : 'sh' not found
  ERROR: configuration failed for package 'ps'
• removing 'C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/staging/1/ps'
  Error: install of package 'ps' failed

install.packages("rlang")
Retrieving 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/rlang_0.4.8.tar.gz' ...
OK [file is up to date]
Installing rlang [0.4.8] ...
FAILED
Error installing package 'rlang':
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• installing source package 'rlang' ...
  ** package 'rlang' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
  ** using staged installation
  ** libs
  Warning in system(paste(cmd, "shlib-clean")) : 'make' not found
  Warning in system(cmd) : 'make' not found
  ERROR: compilation failed for package 'rlang'
• removing 'C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/staging/1/rlang'
  Error: install of package 'rlang' failed

install.packages("stringi", type="win.binary")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/library/R-3.6/x86_64-w64-mingw32’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the source
version is later:
binary source
stringi 1.4.6 1.5.3

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/stringi_1.4.6.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 15310634 bytes (14.6 MB)
downloaded 14.6 MB

package ‘stringi’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\IanWo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpO2sGLM\downloaded_packages

install.packages("ps", type="win.binary")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/library/R-3.6/x86_64-w64-mingw32’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the source
version is later:
binary source
ps 1.3.4 1.4.0

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/ps_1.3.4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 333064 bytes (325 KB)
downloaded 325 KB

package ‘ps’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\IanWo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpO2sGLM\downloaded_packages

install.packages("rlang", type="win.binary")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/IanWo/My Code Projects/R Studio Projects/test1/renv/library/R-3.6/x86_64-w64-mingw32’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

There is a binary version available (and will be installed) but the source
version is later:
binary source
rlang 0.4.7 0.4.8

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.6/rlang_0.4.7.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1145749 bytes (1.1 MB)
downloaded 1.1 MB

package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\IanWo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpO2sGLM\downloaded_packages
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[kevinushey]

Thanks for the bug report! This should now be fixed in the development version of renv.

In the meantime, you can set:

options(install.packages.compile.from.source = FALSE)

to disable attempts to install sources where compilation is required.