This afternoon I tried to upgrade from ignite beta.2 to beta.7 by running both methods
npm i -g [email protected] and ignite add ignite-ir-2016
after processes were complete, running ignite doctor would fail and present me with this

just for reference I then installed beta.6 and it is working properly.
My machine is a windows 8 with node 7.7 and npm 4.3, processor intel i7 with 8 cores.
Thank you
yarn should be optional. we broke something. as a work around for now, npm i -g yarn.
confirmed that installing yarn is a legitimate work-around
Tracking this in https://github.com/infinitered/ignite/issues/949