Installation from CRAN failed on Fedora 30 about processx HOT 6 CLOSED

By running mv ~/.R/Makevars ~/.R/Makevars.bak in the terminal, indeed I have been able to install processx, then callr and finally to update my shiny app in the server.
Many thanks for your help.

from processx.

That does not seem like an error with processx, but a broken or misconfigured R installation or system, possibly. Can you compile other packages from source?

In any case, it seems to work fine OOTB on Fedora 30 (unsupported for more than 3 years now, btw.), with the same R version. Example Dockerfile:

FROM fedora:30
RUN yum install -y R
RUN R -q -e 'install.packages("ps", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
RUN R -q -e 'install.packages("processx", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")'
RUN R -q -e 'processx::run("true")'

docker build -t fedora:processx .
docker run fedora:processx R -q -e 'processx::run("true")'

> processx::run("true")
$status
[1] 0

$stdout
[1] ""

$stderr
[1] ""

$timeout
[1] FALSE

from processx.

Many thanks for the quick response. I have tried for example to install the stringi package from the source and it was successfully installed. I just ran the following:

> install.packages("stringi_1.8.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")

However, I tried the following both without success (the same error that I indicated in the first message appears):

install.packages("processx_3.8.2.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
install.packages("processx", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")

Would you have any insight about that possible R misconfiguration?

from processx.

I don't have a lot of ideas, unfortunately. Do you have an ~/.R/Makevars file? If yes, then try it without that file.

from processx.

Yes, I have it. This is its content:

# Settings from /etc/R/Makeconf with "non-portable flag(s):"
# ‘-Wdate-time’ ‘-Werror=format-security’ ‘-Wformat’ replaced by -Wall -pedantic
# and without -fdebug-prefix-map=... 
CFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $(LTO)
CXXFLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 $(LTO)
CXX98FLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CXX11FLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2
CXX14FLAGS = -g -O2 -Wall -pedantic -fstack-protector-strong -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2

How can I try without that file? Do I have to remove it?

from processx.

It seems harmless, so I don't think this is the problem, but it is worth a try:

mv ~/.R/Makevars ~/.R/Makevars.bak

You can move it back later if you want to:

mv ~/.R/Makevars.bak ~/.R/Makevars

from processx.