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Tools for the evaluation, adjustment, and standardization of demographic data
https://timriffe.github.io/DemoTools
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DemoTools not installing on R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10) #154

Closed RamdaneOS closed 3 years ago

RamdaneOS commented 3 years ago

Hi, I am trying to install the DemoTools package and it seems that there is a version issue. Here is the error message :

Error: Failed to install 'DemoTools' from GitHub: Failed to install 'fertestr' from GitHub: (converted from warning) package ‘ungroup’ is not available for this version of R

A version of this package for your version of R might be available elsewhere, see the ideas at https://cran.r-project.org/doc/manuals/r-patched/R-admin.html#Installing-packages

timriffe commented 3 years ago

Thanks for reporting!

This was a bit of a rabbit hole, but here's my current interpretation.

Why it's currently not installing:

DemoTools depends on ungroup. And it also depends on fertestr, which depends on ungroup. ungroup is down from CRAN because its dependency MortalitySmooth is down, because its dependency svcm is down. And it didn't trace it farther from that. I've emailed the maintainers of svcm, MortalitySmooth, and ungroup with a potential solution.

Temporary solution

Until that dependency chain is properly revived, you can get things installed like so:

# archived versions of svcm and MortalitySmooth
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/svcm/svcm_0.1.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
install.packages("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/MortalitySmooth/MortalitySmooth_2.3.4.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

# Maybe also other ungroup deps:
install.packages("Rcpp")
install.packages("rgl") # this might need installation of an external dependency
install.packages("RcppEigen") 

# then:
remotes::install_github("mpascariu/ungroup")

# and finally DemoTools:
remotes::install_github("timriffe/DemoTools")

There's a way for me to get all this to work automatically on install, but I need nods from the maintainers of those other packages first.

RamdaneOS commented 3 years ago

Thank you for your help. The temporary solution worked on macOS High Sierra. I had an error installing ungroup but I was able to fix this after installing XQuartz. Looking forward to the final solution. Thanks.

cimentadaj commented 3 years ago

This is fixed right @timriffe ?