ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘BiocGenerics’

Question

I am trying to install this package "BiocGenerics" in R and getting this error.

BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org Using Bioconductor 3.6 (BiocInstaller 1.28.0), R 3.4.2 (2017-09-28). Installing package(s) 'BiocGenerics' trying URL ' https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.6/bioc/src/contrib/BiocGenerics_0.24.0.tar.gz ' Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 43393 bytes (42 KB) ================================================== downloaded 42 KB

• installing source package 'BiocGenerics' ... ** R ** inst ** preparing package for lazy loading Creating a new generic function for 'append' in package 'BiocGenerics' Creating a new generic function for 'as.data.frame' in package 'BiocGenerics' Creating a new generic function for 'cbind' in package 'BiocGenerics' Error : identical(as.call(parse(text = old_code)[[1L]]), body[[7L]][[3L]]) is not TRUE Error in apply_hotfix73465(getGeneric("cbind")) : hotfix failed for generic function cbind() Error : unable to load R code in package 'BiocGenerics' ERROR: lazy loading failed for package 'BiocGenerics'
• removing '/home/hamna/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/3.4/BiocGenerics'

The downloaded source packages are in '/tmp/RtmprEuKCy/downloaded_packages' installation path not writeable, unable to update packages: BiocGenerics, littler, cluster, foreign, MASS, Matrix, mgcv, nlme, rpart, survival Warning message: In install.packages(pkgs = doing, lib = lib, ...) : installation of package 'BiocGenerics' had non-zero exit status

I have tried installing it manually but it is failing. And then I tried this command on terminal

sudo apt-get install r-bioc-biocgenerics

This helped me but it installed older version which is not valid for my final package "hgu133plus2.db"

Please help! Best,

Answer 1

This was answered on the Bioconductor support site.

There is an issue with R version 3.4.2 which required a patch. The best solution is to upgrade to at least 3.4.3.