(this issue is also discussed here)
My windows username is my real name with a whitespace between. From R 3.6.2 (I think) onwards, this has been an issue with package installations and updates from source. Binary versions do not have any issues.
example:
Warning: invalid package 'C:\Users\Angelos'
Warning: invalid package 'Amyntas\AppData\Loca\Temp\RtmpQBRREj/downloaded_packages/phytools_0.7-20.tar.gz'
Error: ERROR: no packages specified Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘phytools’ had non-zero exit status
I tried solving that by specifying the folder a new package will be saved and the library it will be stored to so that they are outside the problematic path: install.packages("C:/pckg/package.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source", lib="C:/Program Files/R/R-3.6.3/library").
this is the result of that:
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
Fatal error: cannot open file 'C:\Users\Angelos': No such file or directory
which I think suggests that the lazy loading procedure uses something out of the user folder.
R does not otherwise seem to mind the whitespace being part of the working directory path. Or in fact the library path, since I have my default package library in my user folder. I do not understand how this is possible. Are there any solutions to this other than actually changing the username?
sessionInfo()
R version 3.6.3 (2020-02-29)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows 10 x64 (build 18363)
Matrix products: default
locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252 LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252
[4] LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] devtools_2.2.2 usethis_1.5.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.3 rstudioapi_0.11 magrittr_1.5 pkgload_1.0.2 R6_2.4.1 rlang_0.4.5
[7] fansi_0.4.1 tools_3.6.3 pkgbuild_1.0.6 sessioninfo_1.1.1 cli_2.0.2 withr_2.1.2
[13] ellipsis_0.3.0 remotes_2.1.1 assertthat_0.2.1 digest_0.6.25 rprojroot_1.3-2 crayon_1.3.4
[19] processx_3.4.2 callr_3.4.2 fs_1.3.2 ps_1.3.2 testthat_2.3.2 memoise_1.1.0
[25] glue_1.3.2 compiler_3.6.3 desc_1.2.0 backports_1.1.5 prettyunits_1.1.1