Error when installing packages

[ffionwells]

Bug description

When trying to install the new prerequisite packages for running GeoLift I am getting the following errors: ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘units’ & ERROR: dependency ‘CommutingZones’ is not available for package ‘GeoLift’ This is causing the install to fail which is then giving the further error Error in library(GeoLift) : there is no package called ‘GeoLift’ when trying to import the GeoLift package.

Session information

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Reproduction steps

install.packages("remotes", repos='http://cran.us.r-project.org') remotes::install_github("facebookincubator/CommutingZones") remotes::install_github("ebenmichael/augsynth")

library(GeoLift)

[gufengzhou]

I've just removed and reinstalled using the following code. It works.

remotes::install_github("facebookincubator/CommutingZones")
remotes::install_github("ebenmichael/augsynth")
remotes::install_github("facebookincubator/GeoLift")

You can't call a library using library() if it's not yet installed.

[ffionwells]

^ just tried this and it doesn't work for me, getting ERROR: dependency ‘CommutingZones’ is not available for package ‘GeoLift’

[gufengzhou]

What error do you get when installing commutingzones?

[ffionwells]

I get these three errors ERROR: configuration failed for package ‘units’ ERROR: dependency ‘units’ is not available for package ‘sf’ ERROR: dependency ‘sf’ is not available for package ‘CommutingZones’

[gufengzhou]

@mdb374 FYI can you please check this? Thanks!

[ffionwells]

@gufengzhou @mdb374 are there any updates on this?

[tellis92]

Hi, I work with @ffionwells and had a look at this and think I've identified the issue. They are trying to install on to a databricks notebook and the requirement for CommutingZones has introduced a requirement for units - this package requires the linux package libudunits2-dev which wasn't installed on the databricks cluster (See here)

Is it worth updating the documentation to specify you may need to install libudunits2-dev first (i.e. run something like sudo apt install libudunits2-dev)?

[gufengzhou]

Hi both, thanks for the insights. We've failed to reproduce this error and could only google the error message. Glad that it's working now. We'll update the documentation accordingly

FYI @JussanN @raphaeltamaki @mdb374

[JussanN]

Hi, I'm closing this issue as it was already solved. FYI it's no longer required to install CommutingZones when installing GeoLift so the first remains optional. You can see more details on the GeoLift website. Thank you. https://facebookincubator.github.io/GeoLift/docs/GettingStarted/InstallingR