Invalid uid value and malformed maintainer field upon install dependency Catboost

[lejarx]

Hi @AdrianAntico

I'm trying to install the latest version of RemixAutoML package but faced the following errors. I'm still on R3.6 if that helps. Does your package requires certain version of R?

remotes::install_github('catboost/catboost', subdir = 'catboost/R-package') Downloading GitHub repo catboost/catboost@master 
✓  checking for file ‘/tmp/Rtmpse3O8p/remotesca3839e02421/catboost-catboost-4aed7fe/catboost/R-package/DESCRIPTION’ (496ms) 
─  preparing ‘catboost’: E  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...    
Malformed maintainer field.        
See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'    manual.     
Error: Failed to install 'catboost' from GitHub:   System command 'R' failed, exit status: 1, stdout + stderr: E> * checking for file ‘/tmp/Rtmpse3O8p/remotesca3839e02421/catboost-catboost-4aed7fe/catboost/R-package/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK E> * preparing ‘catboost’: E> * checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... ERROR E> Malformed maintainer field. E>  E> See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions' E> manual. E>  

remotes::install_github('AdrianAntico/RemixAutoML', upgrade = FALSE, dependencies = FALSE, force = TRUE) 
Downloading GitHub repo AdrianAntico/RemixAutoML@master ✓  checking for file ‘/tmp/Rtmpse3O8p/remotesca387ebc3f88/AdrianAntico-RemixAutoML-c7e8030/DESCRIPTION’ (493ms) ─  preparing ‘RemixAutoML’: 
✓  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... 
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts 
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories 
─  building ‘RemixAutoML_0.2.3.tar.gz’    
Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'     
Installing package into ‘/datascience/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.6’ (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) ERROR: dependency ‘catboost’ is not available for package ‘RemixAutoML’ * removing ‘/datascience/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.6/RemixAutoML’ Error: Failed to install 'RemixAutoML' from GitHub:   (converted from warning) installation of package ‘/tmp/Rtmpse3O8p/fileca3870f854a8/RemixAutoML_0.2.3.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

[AdrianAntico]

@lejarx You'll definitely need catboost installed before my package can be installed. There are a few different methods for installing it. If you go to the catboost documentation homepage you can find the various ways on there. https://catboost.ai/docs/concepts/r-installation.html I think you'll want to try out this page: https://catboost.ai/docs/installation/r-installation-binary-installation.html#r-installation-binary-installation

Also want to add, I just installed RemixAutoML on my computer. However, I already have catboost installed so that is likely the reason. The below worked for me in the past. If the most recent version isn't installing, try a previous release, which can be seen here: https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases

Be sure to use the version you want versus what is listed below options(devtools.install.args = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load")) install.packages("https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.17.3/catboost-R-Windows-0.17.3.tgz", repos = NULL, type = "source", INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))

[lejarx]

Thanks @AdrianAntico ,

Installing the released version solves the issue

Below the solution I've used

install.packages('devtools')
devtools::install_url('https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.23.2/catboost-R-Linux-0.23.2.tgz', INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch"))

Installing package into ‘/datascience/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package ‘RemixAutoML’ ...
** using staged installation
** R
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  converting help for package ‘RemixAutoML’
    finding HTML links ... done
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** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
** testing if installed package keeps a record of temporary installation path
* DONE (RemixAutoML)

[AdrianAntico]

@lejarx Thanks for following up!

[AdrianAntico]

@lejarx FYI - I ran into the same problem and they got it fixed, in case you want to install the original way that you tried.

https://github.com/catboost/catboost/issues/1350