Executive summary:
> The devtools package on CRAN appears to be broken. > Installing devtools from github (using remotes::install_github()) > seems to give satisfactory results. This morning my software up-dater (Ubuntu 22.04.4) prompted me to install updated versions of some software, including r-base. I thereby obtained what I believe is the latest version of R (4.4.0 (2024-04-24)). Then I could not load the "devtools" package, which is fairly crucial to my work. A bit of web-searching got me to a post on github by Henrik Bengtsson, which referred to the devtools problem. I therefore decided to try installing devtools from github: remotes::install_github("r-lib/devtools",lib="/home/rolf/Rlib") Some 50-odd packages seemed to require up-dating. I went for it, and after a fairly long wait, while messages about the updating flowed by, devtools seemed to get installed. Now "library(devtools)" runs without error, so I am happy with my own situation. However there seems to be a problem with the devtools package on CRAN, which ought to be fixed. cheers, Rolf Turner -- Honorary Research Fellow Department of Statistics University of Auckland Stats. Dep't. (secretaries) phone: +64-9-373-7599 ext. 89622 Home phone: +64-9-480-4619 ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel