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
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Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Statistics
University of Auckland
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