On 10 July 2019 at 05:53, Alex Hallam wrote: | I am working on a data package. Due to the size of the package I opted | to store the package as a drat repo. | | I am able to install my package locally, but I can't seem to install the | package | from the drat repo. The error I get is: | | ``` | Installing package into ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’ | (as ‘lib’ is unspecified) | trying URL ' | https://alexhallam.github.io/drat/src/contrib/cfsalesdata_0.0.1.1.tar.gz' | Content type 'application/gzip' length 134 bytes | ================================================== | downloaded 134 bytes | | Error in untar2(tarfile, files, list, exdir, restore_times) : | incomplete block on file | Warning in install.packages : | installation of package ‘cfsalesdata’ had non-zero exit status | ``` | | These are the commands I used to install my data package. The local | install works, but my two attempts at installing from a remote repo failed. | | # This works on my local computer | install.packages(file.choose(),repos = NULL, type = "source") | | # Install from remote (fails) | install.packages("cfsalesdata",repos = "https://alexhallam.github.io/drat/";, | type = "source") | | # Install from remote with drat (fails) | library(drat) | addRepo("alexhallam") | install.packages("cfsalesdata") | | My hunch is that this has to do with the tar ball being tracked with "git | large file storage". This is because the file size of my tar ball is 154.9 | MB which exceeds github's 100 MB file size limit. What options can I try in | this situation?
Shucks. Should have realized the >100gb issue when I reocmmended drat. We have GH LFS support as a feature request issue, but I cannot / will not work on it as I do not have such files or repos ... Easiest hack: split your data package into chunks < 100gb and use standard more. Sorry about that, Dirk -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
