Installation error "bad variable name"

[potash]

I am trying to install nanotext for use with mirai and targets. I get the following error:

> install.packages("nanotext")
Installing package into ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning message:
package ‘nanotext’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere,
see the ideas at
https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages 
> install.packages("nanonext", repos = "https://shikokuchuo.r-universe.dev")
Installing package into ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://shikokuchuo.r-universe.dev/src/contrib/nanonext_0.10.0.9000.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1164744 bytes (1.1 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.1 MB

* installing *source* package ‘nanonext’ ...
** using staged installation
./configure: 16: export: -std: bad variable name
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘nanonext’
* removing ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/nanonext’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/home/eric/tmp/RtmpVhNrdR/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("nanonext", repos = "https://shikokuchuo.r-universe.dev") :
  installation of package ‘nanonext’ had non-zero exit status

Any advice? My R version is 4.0.3 and I am using debian buster. Thank you.

[shikokuchuo]

You get the first 'non-available' error because you entered "nanotext" instead of "nanonext". Do you encounter the same issue installing the CRAN version?

If you do then can you let me know the values of the following run from your terminal:

echo $SHELL
R CMD config CC

Thanks.

[potash]

Thanks for the quick reply. Whoops same error with the right spelling:

> install.packages("nanonext")
Installing package into ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/nanonext_0.10.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 862129 bytes (841 KB)
==================================================
downloaded 841 KB

* installing *source* package ‘nanonext’ ...
** package ‘nanonext’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
./configure: 16: export: -std: bad variable name
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘nanonext’
* removing ‘/home/eric/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.0/nanonext’

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘/home/eric/tmp/Rtmpl9AyrQ/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("nanonext") :
  installation of package ‘nanonext’ had non-zero exit status

And your commands:

$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ R CMD config CC
gcc -std=gnu99

[shikokuchuo]

Thanks for reporting this. The issue is fixed in the latest development build - the configure file did not consider the case where the result of R CMD config CC is a string that contains a space.

If you try installing from R-universe again, it should now work.

[potash]

It worked. Thanks!