Linux cannot install "ps" package.

[275ysys]

Linux install "ps" package,I run into the following error:

Error in file(con, "wb") : cannot open the connection In file(con, "wb") : can not open 'src/error-codes.c': no such file or directory

[gaborcsardi]

You need to show us what you are doing, i.e. the command that you are running, and also the full output.

[275ysys]

My Linux distribution is Ubuntu22.02-LTS,Linux-kernel 5.15,R-version 4.2.1,I run command install.packages('ps') to install 'ps' package,and it output:

• installing source package ‘ps’ ... Success will be "ps" package solution package and MD5 and check using staged installation Error in file(con, "wb") : cannot open the connectio Calls: writeBin -> file besides: Warning message: In file(con, "wb") : can not open 'src/error-codes.c': no such file or directory Stop execution ** libs gcc -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -Wl,-O1,--sort-common,--as-needed,-z,relro,-z,now -flto=auto -Wall px.c -o px gcc -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -c init.c -o init.o gcc -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -c api-common.c -o api-common.o gcc -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -c common.c -o common.o gcc -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -c extra.c -o extra.o gcc -I"/usr/include/R/" -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -fexceptions -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fstack-clash-protection -fcf-protection -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -c dummy.c -o dummy.o make: *** no rules can make goals“error-codes.o”，by “ps.so” need。 stop。 ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘ps’
• removing ‘/home/xiaobao/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/ps’
• restoring previous ‘/home/xiaobao/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2/ps’ Warning in install.packages : installation of package 'ps' had non-zero exit status

[gaborcsardi]

That does not seem like the full output, though. Where is the package downloaded from? It also seems incorrect English.

In any case what is the output of sessionInfo()?

[moibernabeu]

Hi, I have the same issue. I recently updated to R 4.2.2 and while installing some packages I got an error saying the ps package was not found, then I tried to install it with the command

install.packages('ps', dependencies=TRUE)

The installation failed and the main error was this one:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘ps’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-ps/00new/ps/libs/ps.so':
  /usr/lib64/R/library/00LOCK-ps/00new/ps/libs/ps.so: undefined symbol: stat
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed

It apparently appears every time I try to install some packages, several ps dependencies output the same error. Probably I missed installing a library where the stat is defined. Do you know about this error?

My sessionInfo():

R version 4.2.2 (2022-10-31)
Platform: x86_64-suse-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: openSUSE Leap 15.3

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRblas.so
LAPACK: /usr/lib64/R/lib/libRlapack.so

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C         LC_TIME=C           
 [4] LC_COLLATE=C         LC_MONETARY=C        LC_MESSAGES=C       
 [7] LC_PAPER=C           LC_NAME=C            LC_ADDRESS=C        
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C       LC_MEASUREMENT=C     LC_IDENTIFICATION=C 

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

other attached packages:
[1] Rcpp_1.0.9

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.2.2 tools_4.2.2

Thanks a lot!

[gaborcsardi]

@moibernabeu that does not look like the same error to me, the error message is completely different.

A workaround is to install package binaries from RSPM, which supports openSUSE: https://packagemanager.rstudio.com/client/#/

[moibernabeu]

Thanks, I just tried and I got the same error...

[gaborcsardi]

Can you show the command(s) you were running, and also the full output?

[gaborcsardi]

Closing for lack of information. Please reopen with the commands and the full output if you still have this issue.