ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RcppParallel’ on Ubuntu LTS 18.04.5
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Dear Folks,
First let me thank you for your work!
This week I've updated a few packages, after the updates were done I could no longer use the prophet package. I've removed my whole R-base, but now I can not install RcppParallel. The installation of other packages works. I am bit clueless since the error message does not reveal much:
** using staged installation
Rscript execution error: No such file or directory
ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘RcppParallel’
* removing ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library/RcppParallel’
I've tried installing older versions of RcppParallel but had no luck with this way.
Any hints are much appreciated!
Felix
I've found the solution here. How is it possible that some r packages know where R Home is or don't they need to know the location for their installation? I'm a bit puzzled by this fact. Since other packages ran smoothly, I would not have expected this to be the issue. What is the difference between which R and Rhome? If I type R into the CLI I would expect that it knows where itself is located.
This suggests something unusual in your setup such as R outside $PATH or multiple. Because generally:
edd@rob:~$ R RHOME # standard R from the Ubuntu build at R
/usr/lib/R
edd@rob:~$ RD RHOME # locally built r-devel, shell front-end
/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R
edd@rob:~$ But in essence the error must be yours as the package builds and checks at CRAN. So thanks for closing!
Additional information: During my re-installation I probably had compiled R from source which interfered with my other installation and was not removed by apt-get remove r-base.
This suggests something unusual in your setup such as R outside $PATH or multiple. Because generally:
edd@rob:~$ R RHOME # standard R from the Ubuntu build at R /usr/lib/R edd@rob:~$ RD RHOME # locally built r-devel, shell front-end /usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R edd@rob:~$But in essence the error must be yours as the package builds and checks at CRAN. So thanks for closing!
Yes, I think my previous confirms your reasoning.
It's all explained in the explicit R Installation and Administration manual. You diverted from that, stuff may happen then.