Trouble installing R6

[alexandrosgryparis]

Hi, I cannot get R6 installed. Could it be that the reason is that my username on my laptop is in Greek, and it doesn't recognize the fonts? I am getting the following message:

There is a binary version available but the source version is later: binary source needs_compilation R6 2.3.0 2.4.0 FALSE

installing the source package ‘R6’

trying URL 'https://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/CRAN/src/contrib/R6_2.4.0.tar.gz' Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 31545 bytes (30 KB) downloaded 30 KB

• installing source package 'R6' ... ** package 'R6' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked Error in .read_description(dfile) : file 'C:/Users/ÁëÝîáíäñïò/AppData/Local/Temp/Rtmpmse9yJ/R.INSTALL133033a5e41/R6/DESCRIPTION' does not exist ERROR: installing package DESCRIPTION failed for package 'R6'
• removing 'C:/R/R-3.5.2/library/R6' In R CMD INSTALL

The downloaded source packages are in ‘C:\Users\ÁëÝîáíäñïò\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpiMtoWy\downloaded_packages’ Warning message: In install.packages(NULL, .libPaths()[1L], dependencies = NA, type = type) : installation of package ‘R6’ had non-zero exit status

Any ideas on how to work this?

My session info: R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20) -- "Eggshell Igloo" Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale: "LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252;LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252;LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252;LC_NUMERIC=C;LC_TIME=English_United States.1252"

attached base packages: ".GlobalEnv" "package:stats" "package:graphics" "package:grDevices" "package:utils" "package:datasets" "package:methods" "Autoloads" "package:base"

Thank you

[gaborcsardi]

This is a bug in base R. A workaround is to install the older binary package:

install.packages("R6", type = "binary")

[alexandrosgryparis]

Indeed, it worked. Thanks a lot!

[JoeEmendo]

I have the same issue, but can't use the binary install. Any advice here? - Thnx

`Warning messages: 1: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, repos = repos, ...) : installation of package ‘R6’ had non-zero exit status 2: In install.packages(update[instlib == l, "Package"], l, contriburl = contriburl, : installation of package ‘R6’ had non-zero exit status

install.packages("R6", type = "binary") Error in install.packages : type 'binary' is not supported on this platform`