Caret package failed to install

Question

I am getting this errors trying to install caret package:

ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘ddalpha’
* removing ‘/home/rspark/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/ddalpha’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘ddalpha’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘ddalpha’ is not available for package ‘recipes’
* removing ‘/home/rspark/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/recipes’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘recipes’ had non-zero exit status
ERROR: dependency ‘recipes’ is not available for package ‘caret’
* removing ‘/home/rspark/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/caret’
Warning in install.packages :
  installation of package ‘caret’ had non-zero exit status

Any ideas?

install.packages("ddalpha")

It gives the same error:

/usr/lib64/R/library/BH/include/boost/exception/exception.hpp:137: error: expected declaration before end of line
make: *** [AlphaProcedure.o] Error 1
ERROR: compilation failed for package ‘ddalpha’
* removing ‘/home/rspark/R/x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu-library/3.3/ddalpha’

Answer 1

I have found a solution. I had the same problem. After installing caret with all its dependencies, ddalpha was not installed. Then I tried installing the package ddalpha alone. I got the message:

" There is a binary version available but the source version is later: binary source needs_compilation ddalpha 1.2.1 1.3.1 TRUE

Do you want to install from sources the package which needs compilation? y/n: n"

Well, if I anwser yes, it doesn't work. But when I answer no, it does work. It looks like the new version has some problem, but the previous one works fine.

Answer 2

As Roman indicated in the comments, ddalpha and recipes are dependencies that aren't installed yet. You can manually install them as follows:

install.packages(c('ddalpha', 'recipes'))

Alternatively, you can tell the install.packages() command to grab the necessary packages during the install process.

install.packages('caret', dependencies=TRUE)

Or list them explicitly:

install.packages('caret', dependencies=c('ddalpha', 'recipes'))

Or, if you use an IDE such as RStudio , the package manager that's included will automatically handle these dependencies for you.

If these suggestions don't solve the problem, you may try updating your instance of R to the latest (3.4.1 as I write this). Also, ddalpha is dependent on the Rcpp package version 0.11.0 or greater, so you may update that package.

update.packages('Rcpp')

Answer 3

I was facing the same issues, and I had tried almost all the methods mentioned here. But the only one that worked for me was updating my IDE and that sorted it out.