Catboost: Catboost installation in R does not work

Created on 5 Jan 2019 · 4Comments · Source: catboost/catboost

Problem: {Installation of Catboost in R is not successful even after considering the past solutions}
catboost version: {catboost 11.1, 12.1 ... does not matter}
Operating System: {windows 7 x64}
CPU: {CPU}

I considered all comments in issue #538. I use R version 3.4.3 and 3.5.2 in Windows 7. Rtools is installed. I can install other packages from github but not catboost. Any suggestions?

Using the suggested solution ...

install.packages('devtools',dependencies = T)
library(devtools)
options(devtools.install.args = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))
devtools::install_url('https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.11.1/catboost-R-Windows-0.11.1.tgz', INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))

... gives this not very informative output:

Downloading package from url: https://github.com/catboost/catboost/releases/download/v0.11.1/catboost-R-Linux-0.11.1.tgz
v  checking for file 'C:\Users\Quaterion\AppData\Local\Temp\RtmpOIGKis\remotes9843afc1c7d\catboost/DESCRIPTION' 
-  preparing 'catboost': (1.3s)
v  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information  
-  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
-  checking for empty or unneeded directories
-  building 'catboost_0.11.1.tar.gz'

Installing package into ‘C:/Users/Quaterion/Documents/R/win-library/3.5’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
* installing *source* package 'catboost' ...
** R
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
** help
*** installing help indices
  converting help for package 'catboost'
    finding HTML links ... done
    catboost.caret                          html  
    catboost.drop_unused_features           html  
    catboost.get_feature_importance         html  
    catboost.get_model_params               html  
    catboost.get_object_importance          html  
    catboost.load_model                     html  
    catboost.load_pool                      html  
    catboost.predict                        html  
    catboost.save_model                     html  
    catboost.save_pool                      html  
    catboost.shrink                         html  
    catboost.staged_predict                 html  
    catboost.train                          html  
    dim.catboost.Pool                       html  
    dimnames.catboost.Pool                  html  
    head.catboost.Pool                      html  
    print.catboost.Pool                     html  
    tail.catboost.Pool                      html  
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
Error : package 'catboost' is not installed for 'arch = x64'
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
ERROR: loading failed
* removing 'C:/Users/Quaterion/Documents/R/win-library/3.5/catboost'
In R CMD INSTALL
Error in i.p(...) : 
  (converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/Quaterion/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpOIGKis/file9845b88501e/catboost_0.11.1.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status

R build issues

Source

Quaterion

Most helpful comment

Thank you. The installation worked after downloading the file and installing it from a local folder. It had nothing to do with version 12 or 11, however and I did not need to rename the file either:

options(devtools.install.args = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))
install.packages("C:/catboost-R-Windows-0.12.1.tgz", repos = NULL, type = "source", INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))

Quaterion on 9 Jan 2019

👍4

All 4 comments

12.1 worked for me, I did have to run the install command above from the 64 bit R console. When I tried to run it in Rstudio, I got the bomb icon.

Also try download the file and install using install.packages(), I had to rename the file extension from .tgz to .tar.gz but then it worked.

install.packages("C:/Users/User/Downloads/catboost-R-Windows-0.12.1.tar.gz", repos = NULL, type = "source", INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))

david-waterworth on 8 Jan 2019

👍2

Thank you. The installation worked after downloading the file and installing it from a local folder. It had nothing to do with version 12 or 11, however and I did not need to rename the file either:

options(devtools.install.args = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))
install.packages("C:/catboost-R-Windows-0.12.1.tgz", repos = NULL, type = "source", INSTALL_opts = c("--no-multiarch", "--no-test-load"))

Quaterion on 9 Jan 2019

👍4

@Quaterion I'm happy that you managed to install catboost! I'm sorry that you had problems with it. We'll discuss what we should update in the docs before closing this one. You are very welcome, if you have recommendations!

annaveronika on 13 Jan 2019

even I am facing the same problem
Installing package into ‘C:/Users/somy/Documents/R/win-library/3.6’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)

installing source package 'catboost' ...
* using staged installation
* R
* inst
* byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
* help
installing help indices
converting help for package 'catboost'
finding HTML links ... done
catboost.caret html
catboost.cv html
catboost.drop_unused_features html
catboost.get_feature_importance html
catboost.get_model_params html
catboost.get_object_importance html
catboost.load_model html
catboost.load_pool html
catboost.predict html
catboost.save_model html
catboost.save_pool html
catboost.shrink html
catboost.staged_predict html
catboost.train html
dim.catboost.Pool html
dimnames.catboost.Pool html
head.catboost.Pool html
print.catboost.Pool html
tail.catboost.Pool html
* building package indices
* testing if installed package can be loaded from temporary location
arch - i386
Error : package 'catboost' is not installed for 'arch = i386'
Error: loading failed
Execution halted
** arch - x64
ERROR: loading failed for 'i386'
removing 'C:/Users/somy/Documents/R/win-library/3.6/catboost'
Error: Failed to install 'unknown package' from URL:
(converted from warning) installation of package ‘C:/Users/somy/AppData/Local/Temp/RtmpKSzxRl/file2148401b454c/catboost_0.16.5.tar.gz’ had non-zero exit status