[R] Problems installing mice package

[David Winsemius]

> On Nov 15, 2017, at 1:08 AM, Jeremie Juste <jeremiejuste at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I tried intalling mice package and got the following error:
> 
> * installing *source* package ‘mice’ ...
> ** package ‘mice’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> ** libs
> g++  -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/home/djj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -g -O2  -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
> g++  -I/usr/local/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG  -I"/home/djj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/Rcpp/include" -I/usr/local/include   -fpic  -g -O2  -c match.cpp -o match.o
> g++ -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o mice.so RcppExports.o match.o Welcome to R! Goodbye!

Somehow you have sent an R "welcome message" to the installer script. What was the action that started all this? Were you in an R session or was this something done from a bash console?

> g++: error: Welcome: No such file or directory
> g++: error: to: No such file or directory
> g++: error: R!: No such file or directory
> g++: error: Goodbye!: No such file or directory
> /usr/local/lib/R/share/make/shlib.mk:6: recipe for target 'mice.so' failed
> make: *** [mice.so] Error 1
> ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘mice’
> * removing ‘/home/djj/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/mice’
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> 	‘/tmp/Rtmpgam70t/downloaded_packages’
> Error in library(mice) : there is no package called ‘mice’
> In addition: Warning message:
> In  :

That's a rather strange method for invoking install.packages. Usually it would be just:

install.packages("mice", repos = "http://cran.us.r-project.org")



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>  installation of package ‘mice’ had non-zero exit status
> 
> I'm unable to resolve it. Any help please?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jeremie
> 
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David Winsemius
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