installation [of future.apply] failed: had non-zero exit status

[XiaoyuZeng]

(Please use https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future/discussions for Q&A)

Describe the bug
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‘installation of package ‘future.apply’ had non-zero exit status’
Reproduce example
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Expected behavior
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I tried install the future.apply through a)install.packages("future.apply"); b)devtools::install_local("D:/Download/zip/future.apply-develop.zip"). Both of these attempts failed. I wondered how I can make it succeed.

Session information

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 LC_CTYPE=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936
[3] LC_MONETARY=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=Chinese (Simplified)_China.936

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.7 pillar_1.6.2 compiler_4.1.1 prettyunits_1.1.1 remotes_2.4.0 tools_4.1.1
[7] testthat_3.0.4 pkgload_1.2.1 pkgbuild_1.2.0 memoise_2.0.0 lubridate_1.7.10 lifecycle_1.0.0
[13] tibble_3.1.3 gtable_0.3.0 pkgconfig_2.0.3 rlang_0.4.11 rstudioapi_0.13 DBI_1.1.1
[19] cli_3.0.1 curl_4.3.2 fastmap_1.1.0 withr_2.4.2 dplyr_1.0.7 desc_1.3.0
[25] fs_1.5.0 devtools_2.4.2 generics_0.1.0 vctrs_0.3.8 rprojroot_2.0.2 grid_4.1.1
[31] tidyselect_1.1.1 glue_1.4.2 R6_2.5.0 processx_3.5.2 fansi_0.5.0 sessioninfo_1.1.1
[37] ggplot2_3.3.5 purrr_0.3.4 callr_3.7.0 magrittr_2.0.1 usethis_2.0.1 scales_1.1.1
[43] ps_1.6.0 ellipsis_0.3.2 assertthat_0.2.1 colorspace_2.0-2 utf8_1.2.2 munsell_0.5.0
[49] cachem_1.0.5 crayon_1.4.1

[HenrikBengtsson]

Hi, what's the full output when you run:

install.packages("future.apply")

?

[XiaoyuZeng]

install.packages("future.apply")

有二进制版本的，但源代码版本是后来的:
binary source needs_compilation
future.apply 1.7.0 1.8.1 FALSE

安装源码包‘future.apply’

trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/future.apply_1.8.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 63654 bytes (62 KB)
downloaded 62 KB

Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘future.apply’ had non-zero exit status

The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\xiaoy\AppData\Local\Temp\Rtmpk7kIGO\downloaded_packages’

[HenrikBengtsson]

Hmm... I cannot reproduce this with R 4.1.1 running on Windows 10;

R version 4.1.1 (2021-08-10) -- "Kick Things"
Copyright (C) 2021 The R Foundation for Statistical Computing
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

...

> install.packages("future.apply")
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/hb/Documents/R/win-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
--- Please select a CRAN mirror for use in this session ---
also installing the dependencies ‘digest’, ‘parallelly’, ‘future’, ‘globals’


  There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
             binary source needs_compilation
future.apply  1.7.0  1.8.1             FALSE

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/digest_0.6.27.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 268501 bytes (262 KB)
downloaded 262 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/parallelly_1.27.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 271480 bytes (265 KB)
downloaded 265 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/future_1.21.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 641744 bytes (626 KB)
downloaded 626 KB

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/bin/windows/contrib/4.1/globals_0.14.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 95361 bytes (93 KB)
downloaded 93 KB

package ‘digest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘parallelly’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘future’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘globals’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

The downloaded binary packages are in
        C:\Users\hb\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpwhXL9F\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘future.apply’

trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/future.apply_1.8.1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 63654 bytes (62 KB)
downloaded 62 KB

* installing *source* package 'future.apply' ...
** package 'future.apply' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  converting help for package 'future.apply'
    finding HTML links ... done
    fold                                    html  
    future.apply                            html  
    future.apply.options                    html  
    future_apply                            html  
    future_by                               html  
    future_lapply                           html  
    future_mapply                           html  
    makeChunks                              html  
    make_rng_seeds                          html  
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x64
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
*** arch - i386
*** arch - x64
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (future.apply)

The downloaded source packages are in
        ‘C:\Users\hb\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpwhXL9F\downloaded_packages’
> 

Comparing your output and using Google Translate, I see that "有二进制版本的，但源代码版本是后来的" translates to "There is a binary version, but the source code version is later", and "安装源码包" translates to "Install source package", which is all the same as what I get. However, after that I'd expect to see more output from you, not just a warning.

A few comments and suggestions:

1. I never seen this reported. I'm 99.99999999...% certain it's not specific to the future.apply package but rather something with your setup.

2. According to your sessionInfo(), you've got lots of other packages loaded. Maybe some of those causes a conflict. Try installing using a fresh R session. For instance, try to run R in the terminal where you start R using R --vanilla.

3. Have you managed to install future that future.apply depends on? Does it work with library(future)?

4. CRAN still hasn't built a Windows binary for future.apply 1.8.1, cf. https://cran.r-project.org/package=future.apply. You could wait and retry when you see that is available. But I doubt that's the actual problem here.

PS. Next, I'm gonna transfer this issue to the future forum at https://github.com/HenrikBengtsson/future/discussions, where it belongs.

[XiaoyuZeng]

Hi.

I solved this problem by uninstalling the latest r 4.1.1 and then installing r 4.1.0 instead. I think this issue might be due to the R version and future.apply version.

Anyway, thanks for your help!

[HenrikBengtsson]

I doubt it's related to future.apply, because it's a plain R package without native code. If you run into this problem again, please follow the suggestions I outlined in #540 (comment)