[R] install issue with survey package?

[Michael Dewey]

Dear Al

It looks like the problem may be the embedded space in Al Nerdi

What happens if you manually download the tar.gz file, put it somewhere 
convenient and then from the commend line run

R CMD INSTALL survey_3.34.tar.gz

You will need to make sure R is on your path first

Michael

On 12/10/2018 09:31, Alexander Nervedi wrote:
> Have been trying to run a few packages with dependency on the survey package (e.g. twang) and have run into trouble that I am not sure how to resolve. Any help would be appreciated, the code (and error messages) are below:
> 
> --- R log begins ---
>> install.packages("survey")
> Installing package into �D:/Users/Al Nerdi/Documents/R/win-library/3.5�
> (as �lib� is unspecified)
> 
>    There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
>         binary source needs_compilation
> survey 3.33-2   3.34             FALSE
> 
> installing the source package �survey�
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/survey_3.34.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1476949 bytes (1.4 MB)
> downloaded 1.4 MB
> 
> Warning: invalid package 'D:\Users\Al'
> Warning: invalid package 'Nerdi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU3AmrY/downloaded_packages/survey_3.34.tar.gz'
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> In R CMD INSTALL
> Warning in install.packages :
>    installation of package �survey� had non-zero exit status
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> �D:\Users\Al Nerdi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU3AmrY\downloaded_packages�
> 
>> install.packages("twang")
> Installing package into �D:/Users/Al Nerdi/Documents/R/win-library/3.5�
> (as �lib� is unspecified)
> also installing the dependencies �gbm�, �survey�
> 
> 
>    There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
>         binary source needs_compilation
> survey 3.33-2   3.34             FALSE
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/gbm_2.1.4.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1094087 bytes (1.0 MB)
> downloaded 1.0 MB
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.5/twang_1.5.zip'
> Content type 'application/zip' length 1516991 bytes (1.4 MB)
> downloaded 1.4 MB
> 
> package �gbm� successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> package �twang� successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
> 
> The downloaded binary packages are in
> D:\Users\Al Nerdi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU3AmrY\downloaded_packages
> installing the source package �survey�
> 
> trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/survey_3.34.tar.gz'
> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1476949 bytes (1.4 MB)
> downloaded 1.4 MB
> 
> Warning: invalid package 'D:\Users\Al'
> Warning: invalid package 'Nerdi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU3AmrY/downloaded_packages/survey_3.34.tar.gz'
> Error: ERROR: no packages specified
> In R CMD INSTALL
> Warning in install.packages :
>    installation of package �survey� had non-zero exit status
> 
> The downloaded source packages are in
> �D:\Users\Al Nerdi\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpU3AmrY\downloaded_packages�
>> library(twang)
> Loading required package: gbm
> Loaded gbm 2.1.4
> Error: package �survey� required by �twang� could not be found
> 
>> R.Version()
> $`platform`
> [1] "x86_64-w64-mingw32"
> 
> $arch
> [1] "x86_64"
> 
> $os
> [1] "mingw32"
> 
> $system
> [1] "x86_64, mingw32"
> 
> $status
> [1] ""
> 
> $major
> [1] "3"
> 
> $minor
> [1] "5.1"
> 
> $year
> [1] "2018"
> 
> $month
> [1] "07"
> 
> $day
> [1] "02"
> 
> $`svn rev`
> [1] "74947"
> 
> $language
> [1] "R"
> 
> $version.string
> [1] "R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)"
> 
> $nickname
> [1] "Feather Spray"
> 
> --- R log ends ---
> 
> I am not sure how to address this. Any suggestions will be great!
> 
> Grazie,
> 
> Al Nerdi
> 
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Michael
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