I am having an issue with the XML package failing on a basic function. This makes packages that depend on this function also fail:
> library(XML) > newXMLNode("bob") I/O error : flush error I can’t find any reference to the error online > sessionInfo() R version 3.6.0 (2019-04-26) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin18.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS 10.15.3 Matrix products: default BLAS: /Users/gabrielhoffman/Downloads/R-3.6.0/lib/libRblas.dylib LAPACK: /Users/gabrielhoffman/Downloads/R-3.6.0/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_3.99-0.3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.6.0 tools_3.6.0 tcltk_3.6.0 # The expected result is: <bob/> # This works fine in R 3.5.1 on the same machine > sessionInfo() R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS 10.15.3 Matrix products: default BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_3.99-0.3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_3.5.1 tools_3.5.1 # It also fails on R development version > sessionInfo() R Under development (unstable) (2020-03-16 r77979) Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin19.3.0 (64-bit) Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.3 Matrix products: default BLAS: /Users/gabrielhoffman/Downloads/R-devel/lib/libRblas.dylib LAPACK: /Users/gabrielhoffman/Downloads/R-devel/lib/libRlapack.dylib locale: [1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 attached base packages: [1] stats graphics grDevices datasets utils methods base other attached packages: [1] XML_3.99-0.3 loaded via a namespace (and not attached): [1] compiler_4.0.0 Best - Gabriel [[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.