Hi, I am using the R 3.6.0 on windows. The issue that I report below does not exist with previous version of R. In order to reproduce the error you must install a package of your choice from source (tar.gz).
-Create a .Rprofile file with the following command in it : setwd("D:/") -Close your R session and re-open it. Your working directory must be now set to D: -Install a package of your choice from source, example : install.packages("data.table",type="source") In my case the package fail to install and I get the following error message: ** R ** inst ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading Error in tools:::.read_description(file) : file 'DESCRIPTION' does not exist Calls: suppressPackageStartupMessages ... withCallingHandlers -> .getRequiredPackages -> <Anonymous> -> <Anonymous> Execution halted ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'data.table' * removing 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table' * restoring previous 'C:/Users/Morgan/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/data.table' Warning in install.packages : installation of package ‘data.table’ had non-zero exit status Now remove the .Rprofile file, restart your R session and try to install the package with the same command. In that case everything should be installed just fine. FYI the issue happens on macOS as well and I suspect it also does on all linux systems. My question: Is this expected or is it a bug? Thank you Best regards, Morgan [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ 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.