I had the same thought in the shower this morning but I was disappointed to find that SElinux was disabled on the system. My next step will be to install a previous version of R on the system. My problem is that I am planning a shiny server installation and at least half of the apps on the current system depend on these libraries that will not install. -- W. Michael Conklin EVP Marketing & Data Sciences GfK T +1 763 417 4545 | M +1 612 567 8287
-----Original Message----- From: Don Cohen [mailto:don-r-h...@isis.cs3-inc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 6:18 PM To: Duncan Murdoch Cc: Conklin, Mike (GfK); Martin Maechler; r-help@r-project.org Subject: Re: [R] Missing dependencies in pkg installs Duncan Murdoch writes: > On 22/06/2017 5:02 PM, Conklin, Mike (GfK) wrote: > > I am using debug on the .install_packages function...stepping through. > > Once the temporary folder is created and the tar file expanded I run > > file_test and get a FALSE back indicating that the configure file is not > > executable. > > I don't know what is causing this bug. Perhaps a Linux user can > > reproduce it and fix it. > > Here's what I see: > > file_test("-x") calls file.access(filename, 1L). That in turn calls the > > C library function access(..., X_OK). The ... is the name of the file, > > translated into the local encoding and expanded. As far as I can see, > > that means ... should be exactly the string below. > > > > [1] "/tmp/RtmpMM6iC1/R.INSTALLc5ca415e4310/stringi" > > The only thing I can think of is that your system is protecting you from > > executing a newly created file until some sort of virus or other check > is > done. (This is common on Windows, but I've never heard of it before > on > Linux.) Just a thought - are you running SELinux ? Check the log files for refusals to run programs. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
