Installation in RStudio fails

[inscara]

Hi,

I cannot install the package in RStudio 2022.02.1 Build 461 (R 3.4.3). It spits an error about "bad restore file magic number" during the installation with install.packages("string.alignment"):

CMD.EXE was started with the above path as the current directory. UNC paths are not supported. Defaulting to Windows directory. * installing *source* package 'text.alignment' ... ** package 'text.alignment' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs

*** arch - i386
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_32/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/include" -DNDEBUG -I"C:/rlibs/3.4.3/Rcpp/include" -O2 -Wall -mtune=generic -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_32/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/include" -DNDEBUG -I"C:/rlibs/3.4.3/Rcpp/include" -O2 -Wall -mtune=generic -c smith_waterman_matrix.cpp -o smith_waterman_matrix.o
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_32/bin/g++ -shared -s -static-libgcc -o text.alignment.dll tmp.def RcppExports.o smith_waterman_matrix.o -LC:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/bin/i386 -lR
installing to C:/rlibs/3.4.3/text.alignment/libs/i386

*** arch - x64
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_64/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/include" -DNDEBUG -I"C:/rlibs/3.4.3/Rcpp/include" -O2 -Wall -mtune=generic -c RcppExports.cpp -o RcppExports.o
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_64/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/include" -DNDEBUG -I"C:/rlibs/3.4.3/Rcpp/include" -O2 -Wall -mtune=generic -c smith_waterman_matrix.cpp -o smith_waterman_matrix.o
C:/HYApp/Rtools3.4/mingw_64/bin/g++ -shared -s -static-libgcc -o text.alignment.dll tmp.def RcppExports.o smith_waterman_matrix.o -LC:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/bin/x64 -lR
installing to C:/rlibs/3.4.3/text.alignment/libs/x64
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
converting help for package 'text.alignment'
finding HTML links ... done
smith_waterman html
smith_waterman_misaligned html
smith_waterman_pairwise html
tokenize_letters html
tokenize_spaces_punct html
** building package indices
** installing vignettes
** testing if installed package can be loaded
*** arch - i386
Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) :
bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data loaded
Calls: sys.load.image -> load
In addition: Warning message:
file '.RData' has magic number 'RDX3'
Use of save versions prior to 2 is deprecated
Execution halted
*** arch - x64
Error in load(name, envir = .GlobalEnv) :
bad restore file magic number (file may be corrupted) -- no data loaded
Calls: sys.load.image -> load
In addition: Warning message:
file '.RData' has magic number 'RDX3'
Use of save versions prior to 2 is deprecated
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed for 'i386', 'x64'

• removing 'C:/rlibs/3.4.3/text.alignment'
  In R CMD INSTALL
  Warning in install.packages :
  running command '"C:/PROGRA1/R/R-341.3/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "C:\rlibs\3.4.3" C:\Users\araujo\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpY3sj17/downloaded_packages/text.alignment_0.1.2.tar.gz' had status 1
  Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘text.alignment’ had non-zero exit status

Any ideas how to fix it?

[jwijffels]

Not sure, never tested on R < 3.5.

• Did you test installing the package without RStudio?
• Did you try installing with the commands remotes::install_github("DIGI-VUB/text.alignment", build_vignettes = TRUE)