Error installing from github

[fedeb95]

Hi, I was trying to install the library this way: library('devtools') install_github("eddelbuettel/bh") but got the following error: Error : /tmp/Rtmp1M5W5j/devtools10b83412e428/eddelbuettel-bh-ea401b9/man/BH-package.Rd: Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files ERROR: installing Rd objects failed for package ‘BH’ removing ‘/home/federico/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.2/BH’ Installation failed: Command failed (1) R version 3.2.2, Ubuntu 16.04 I first got the error trying to install sqldf, so decided to try from github

[eddelbuettel]

You are doing it wrong. It is a CRAN package, so please install from CRAN.

[fedeb95]

using install.packages('BH') I get the same error: Error : /tmp/RtmpxfXx6W/R.INSTALLc0a6c2b91b/BH/man/BH-package.Rd: Sections \title, and \name must exist and be unique in Rd files

[eddelbuettel]

I don't:

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R> if(identical(getOption('pager'), file.path(R.home('bin'), 'pager'))) # rather take the ESS one
+       options(pager='cat')
R> options(STERM='iESS', str.dendrogram.last="'", editor='emacsclient', show.error.locations=TRUE)
R> install.packages("BH")
Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/BH_1.62.0-1.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 10181096 bytes (9.7 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 9.7 MB

* installing *source* package ‘BH’ ...
** package ‘BH’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** inst
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (BH)

The downloaded source packages are in
    ‘/tmp/RtmpJ7daej/downloaded_packages’
R> 

Note also that

• your R version is outdated, R 3.4.1 for Ubuntu is at CRAN
• your log is incomplete
• the log is from a session in Emacs ESS to make copying easier
• I use Ubuntu 16.10 myself.

[fedeb95]

Upgrading to R 3.2.3 and trying to install again worked. Thank you. From apt-get this is the version of R I get

[eddelbuettel]

3.2.3 != 3.4.1 and still outdated by two years. This will limit your ability to install from CRAN.

[fedeb95]

I'll try to upgrade R as soon as I can