Hi @jcblum,
please find below the sessioninfo and the complete error message
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.0 (2017-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows Server >= 2012 x64 (build 9200)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252 LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252 LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.0 tools_3.4.0
When we now try to install DBI we receive the following message. I am sure, that there was another error mentioning blob last week, when we installed the first time
> install.packages('DBI')
Warning in install.packages :
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/src/contrib/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
Installing package into ‘H:/My Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in readRDS(file) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
Error in readRDS(file) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
Warning in install.packages :
cannot open URL 'http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/PACKAGES.rds': HTTP status was '404 Not Found'
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/DBI_1.0.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 829191 bytes (809 KB)
downloaded 809 KB
package ‘DBI’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Berterma\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgngY8J\downloaded_packages
Error in readRDS(pfile) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
When we separately try to install blob:
> install.packages('blob')
Error in readRDS(file) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
Installing package into ‘H:/My Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Error in readRDS(file) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
Error in readRDS(file) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
also installing the dependencies ‘ellipsis’, ‘rlang’, ‘vctrs’
There are binary versions available but the source versions are later:
binary source needs_compilation
ellipsis 0.1.0 0.3.0 TRUE
rlang 0.3.4 0.4.0 TRUE
vctrs 0.1.0 0.2.0 TRUE
blob 1.1.1 1.2.0 FALSE
Binaries will be installed
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/ellipsis_0.1.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 30847 bytes (30 KB)
downloaded 30 KB
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/rlang_0.3.4.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 1080437 bytes (1.0 MB)
downloaded 1.0 MB
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/bin/windows/contrib/3.4/vctrs_0.1.0.zip'
Content type 'application/zip' length 499748 bytes (488 KB)
downloaded 488 KB
package ‘ellipsis’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘rlang’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
package ‘vctrs’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
The downloaded binary packages are in
C:\Users\Berterma\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgngY8J\downloaded_packages
installing the source package ‘blob’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/blob_1.2.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 9355 bytes
downloaded 9355 bytes
Warning in install.packages :
running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "H:\My Documents\R\win-library\3.4" C:\Users\Berterma\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgngY8J/downloaded_packages/blob_1.2.0.tar.gz' had status 65535
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘blob’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘C:\Users\Berterma\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpgngY8J\downloaded_packages’
Error in readRDS(pfile) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
As blob 1.2.0 need r 3.5 or later we also tried to install blob 1.1.1 manually
> install.packages("//de.kb.int/mf/homes/berterma/My Documents/blob_1.1.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source")
Installing package into ‘H:/My Documents/R/win-library/3.4’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning in install.packages :
running command '"C:/PROGRA~1/R/bin/x64/R" CMD INSTALL -l "H:\My Documents\R\win-library\3.4" "//de.kb.int/mf/homes/berterma/My Documents/blob_1.1.1.tar.gz"' had status 65535
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘//de.kb.int/mf/homes/username/My Documents/blob_1.1.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status
Error in readRDS(pfile) :
cannot read workspace version 3 written by R 3.6.1; need R 3.5.0 or newer
Hopefully this helps,
Andreas