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ropensci / NLMR

📦 R package to simulate neutral landscape models 🏔
https://ropensci.github.io/NLMR/
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SystemRequirements is malformed #104

Closed frafra closed 1 year ago

frafra commented 1 year ago

Hi, I am not able to install this library, as R is complaining that SystemRequirements is malformed.

#10 2.641 Error in read.dcf(path) : Line starting 'SystemRequir ...' is malformed!

I am installing a package which has NLMR as a dependency, using Ubuntu 22.04. This seems to happen with NLMR only, and only when using the github:: prefix (the default one), while it works with url::.

This works:

Rscript -e "devtools::install_url('https://github.com/ropensci/NLMR/archive/refs/heads/master.zip')"

This fails:

Rscript -e "devtools::install_github('ropensci/NLMR')"

Output:

Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from GitHub:
  Line starting 'SystemRequir ...' is malformed!
Execution halted
mhesselbarth commented 1 year ago

Hey,

I can't reproduce the error on macOS, so not sure what is happening on your machine.

frafra commented 1 year ago

This seems a locale issue. Setting the locale to en_US.UTF-8 fixes the issue. Leaving the default C makes it fail. It seems triggered with this repo only. It could be that some unicode characters used in DESCRIPTION are not handled correctly by devtools.