"No addins found"

[RemBoy]

Hi, I'm trying to install Rstudio addins, but they don't show up in the Addins button or Tools → Addins → Browse Addins... menu. I first updated my Rstudio, and then reinstalled again, to no avail.

This is how I proceed:

devtools::install_github("rstudio/addinexamples", type = "source")

It installs successfully (and I can check that it appears correctly in the package tab or in C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\R\win-library\4.0\addinexamples) but still does not show up under the addins button. Username has special characters though (French accents). Would that be the problem?

Even after loading the library manually as so:

library(addinexamples)

The library appears loaded but no button. I tried many other packages with the same result (e.g., addinmanager, addinslist, colourpicker, esquisse). Any idea? Thanks.

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.2 (2020-06-22)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] zip_2.1.1         Rcpp_1.0.5        gvlma_1.0.0.3     compiler_4.0.2    pillar_1.4.7     
 [6] cellranger_1.1.0  forcats_0.5.0     tools_4.0.2       boot_1.3-25       lifecycle_0.2.0  
[11] tibble_3.0.4      nlme_3.1-148      lattice_0.20-41   pkgconfig_2.0.3   rlang_0.4.10     
[16] openxlsx_4.1.5    psych_2.0.7       rstudioapi_0.13   curl_4.3          parallel_4.0.2   
[21] Kendall_2.2       mvtnorm_1.1-1     haven_2.3.1       rio_0.5.16        vctrs_0.3.6      
[26] hms_0.5.3         gbRd_0.4-11       lmtest_0.9-37     grid_4.0.2        data.table_1.13.0
[31] Rdpack_2.1        readxl_1.3.1      foreign_0.8-80    carData_3.0-4     car_3.0-9        
[36] magrittr_2.0.1    rbibutils_2.0     ellipsis_0.3.1    lawstat_3.4       abind_1.4-5      
[41] mnormt_2.0.1      stringi_1.5.3     tmvnsim_1.0-2     crayon_1.3.4      zoo_1.8-8

[DavoWW]

Hi @RemBoy,
You could try several things:
Upgrade to R-4.0.3 to see if that changes anything.
Try installing an addin package from CRAN which does not need compiling e.g. {datapasta}.
Check that the RStudio addin registration file has not been lost/corrupted - see details here:
http://rstudio.github.io/rstudioaddins/

HTH

[RemBoy]

Thanks for your answer @DavoWW!

I already tried installing packages from CRAN directly with the same results. E.g.,

install.packages("datapasta")
package ‘datapasta’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked

I couldn't find the file inst/rstudio/addins.dcf within C:\Program Files\RStudio but I did find it in each library's folder e.g, Documents\R\win-library\4.0\addinexamples\rstudio. So I'm not sure why it would be corrupted since I tried reinstalling the packages, and several of them. (How do you check if the file is corrupted? If it's only reinstalling, then that's been done) File contains:

Name: Insert %in%
Description: Inserts `%in%` at the cursor position.
Binding: insertInAddin
Interactive: false

Name: Find and Replace
Description: Find and replace words in a document.
Binding: findAndReplaceAddin
Interactive: true

Name: Reformat R Code
Description: Reformat R code using 'formatR::tidy_source()'.
Binding: reformatAddin
Interactive: true

Name: Subset a Data Frame
Description: Interactively subset a data frame.
Binding: subsetAddin
Interactive: true

Finally, I just updated R to 4.0.3, and I still experience the same problem.

sessionInfo()
R version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 19042)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_Canada.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_Canada.1252    LC_MONETARY=English_Canada.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=English_Canada.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] lattice_0.20-41  codetools_0.2-16 mvtnorm_1.1-1    zoo_1.8-8        psych_2.0.7      MASS_7.3-53     
 [7] grid_4.0.3       nlme_3.1-149     xtable_1.8-4     coda_0.19-4      estimability_1.3 multcomp_1.4-13 
[13] bootES_1.2       Matrix_1.2-18    boot_1.3-25      sandwich_2.5-1   splines_4.0.3    TH.data_1.0-10  
[19] tools_4.0.3      emmeans_1.5.1    parallel_4.0.3   survival_3.2-7   compiler_4.0.3   mnormt_2.0.1    
[25] tmvnsim_1.0-2