Devtools: Does not appear to be an R package (No Description)

[asimumba]

Hi, when I try to install from Github using devtools I get these error messages:

devtools::install_github("pablobarbera/instaR/instaR")
Downloading GitHub repo pablobarbera/instaR@master
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Archive entry has empty or unreadable filename ... skipping.
tar.exe: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
Error: Does not appear to be an R package (no DESCRIPTION)
In addition: Warning messages:
1: In utils::untar(tarfile, ...) :
  ‘tar.exe -zxf

This seem to happen with other packages from Github too.

Session info

- Session info -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 setting  value                       
 version  R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
 os       Windows 10 x64              
 system   x86_64, mingw32             
 ui       RStudio                     
 language (EN)                        
 collate  English_United States.1252  
 ctype    English_United States.1252  
 tz       Africa/Johannesburg         
 date     2018-12-07                  

- Packages -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 package     * version date       lib source        
 assertthat    0.2.0   2017-04-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 backports     1.1.2   2017-12-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 base64enc     0.1-3   2015-07-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.0)
 callr         3.0.0   2018-08-24 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 cli           1.0.1   2018-09-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 crayon        1.3.4   2017-09-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 curl          3.2     2018-03-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 desc          1.2.0   2018-05-01 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 devtools    * 2.0.1   2018-10-26 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 digest        0.6.18  2018-10-10 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 evaluate      0.12    2018-10-09 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 fs            1.2.6   2018-08-23 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 glue          1.3.0   2018-07-17 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 htmltools     0.3.6   2017-04-28 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 knitr         1.20    2018-02-20 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 magrittr      1.5     2014-11-22 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 memoise       1.1.0   2017-04-21 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 pkgbuild      1.0.2   2018-10-16 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 pkgload       1.0.2   2018-10-29 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 prettyunits   1.0.2   2015-07-13 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 processx      3.2.1   2018-12-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 ps            1.2.1   2018-11-06 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 R6            2.3.0   2018-10-04 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 Rcpp          1.0.0   2018-11-07 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 remotes       2.0.2   2018-10-30 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 rlang         0.3.0.1 2018-10-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 rmarkdown     1.10    2018-06-11 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 rprojroot     1.3-2   2018-01-03 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 rstudioapi    0.8     2018-10-02 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 sessioninfo   1.1.1   2018-11-05 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 usethis     * 1.4.0   2018-08-14 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 withr         2.1.2   2018-03-15 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)
 yaml          2.2.0   2018-07-25 [1] CRAN (R 3.5.1)

[jimhester]

You seem to have a non-standard tar on your PATH. You could try setting Sys.setenv("TAR" = "internal") to use R's internal tar instead.

[asimumba]

I tried to implement your suggestion, but to no avail. When I run Sys.getenv("TAR")
this is the result, [1] "".

[asimumba]

After setting the Sys.setenv("TAR" = "internal") to a directory and then back to internal did the trick. Now I get internal as a result when I run Sys.getenv("TAR"). And the packages can now install.

[DataStrategist]

I've been having this issue again on the latest version of devtools and Rstudio... do you know why? Running Sys.setenv("TAR" = "internal") makes it work, but I have to reset that everytime I start Rstudio.

sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.0 rstudioapi_0.7 magrittr_1.5 usethis_1.4.0
[5] devtools_2.0.1 pkgload_1.0.2 debugme_1.1.0 R6_2.3.0
[9] rlang_0.3.1 tools_3.5.2 pkgbuild_1.0.2 sessioninfo_1.1.1
[13] cli_1.0.1 withr_2.1.2 remotes_2.0.2.9000 yaml_2.1.19
[17] assertthat_0.2.0 digest_0.6.18 rprojroot_1.3-2 crayon_1.3.4
[21] callr_2.0.3 fs_1.2.6 curl_3.2 testthat_2.0.1
[25] memoise_1.1.0 glue_1.3.0 compiler_3.5.2 desc_1.2.0
[29] backports_1.1.2 prettyunits_1.0.2

[asimumba]

I've been having this issue again on the latest version of devtools and Rstudio... do you know why? Running Sys.setenv("TAR" = "internal") makes it work, but I have to reset that everytime I start Rstudio.

sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
Running under: Windows >= 8 x64 (build 9200)

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252 LC_CTYPE=English_United States.1252
[3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
[5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252

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

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.0 rstudioapi_0.7 magrittr_1.5 usethis_1.4.0
[5] devtools_2.0.1 pkgload_1.0.2 debugme_1.1.0 R6_2.3.0
[9] rlang_0.3.1 tools_3.5.2 pkgbuild_1.0.2 sessioninfo_1.1.1
[13] cli_1.0.1 withr_2.1.2 remotes_2.0.2.9000 yaml_2.1.19
[17] assertthat_0.2.0 digest_0.6.18 rprojroot_1.3-2 crayon_1.3.4
[21] callr_2.0.3 fs_1.2.6 curl_3.2 testthat_2.0.1
[25] memoise_1.1.0 glue_1.3.0 compiler_3.5.2 desc_1.2.0
[29] backports_1.1.2 prettyunits_1.0.2

@DataStrategist All you need to do is place this Sys.setenv("TAR" = "internal") in your .Rprofile file so that every time R starts, the code is run.

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