On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 at 00:29, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 22 April 2021 at 18:43, Mazin Abdelghany wrote: > > | [...] Because miniconda is installed on my system, the PATH > | variable is changed to the below: > | > /home/mazin/miniconda3/condabin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin > > That likely puts a compiler _ahead_ in the path meaning that when R calls a > compiler to install a package from source it may get _an incompatible_ one. > > Which would explain your issues. > I agree this is almost certainly the reason building packages fails. I have seen this before (my interests include ocean remote sensing where Python and R are often used at different stages in a workflow). In addition to compilers, there can be problems with differing dynamic library and python module versions, or the data files used by some libraries. Some users conclude that "R doesn't work". Such conflicts, however, easily avoided by using an environment manager such as John Furlani's Environment Modules[1] (has a long history and was included in SGI IRIX64 decades ago) or the more recent Lua Mod[2]. Both are available as Ubuntu packages. There are others (see the Wikipedia articles on Environment Modules). [1] John L. Furlani, Modules: Providing a Flexible User Environment <http://modules.sourceforge.net/docs/Modules-Paper.pdf> *Proceedings of the Fifth Large Installation Systems Administration Conference (LISA V)*, pp. 141–152, San Diego, CA, September 30 - October 3, 1991. [2] https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/research-development/tacc-projects/lmod, "Modern Scientific Software Management Using EasyBuild and Lmod," M. Geimer, K. Hoste, and R. McLay, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools, HUST '14, Nov. 2014. dx.doi.org/10.1109/HUST.2014.8. -- George N. White III [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
