Can't load package from CRAN or github

[Philip Chase]

If I install summarytools 1.0.0 from CRAN, it installs, but R hangs at library(summarytools)

If install an older version with devtools::install_version() or devtools::install_github(), the installation hangs at ** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading. Here's the full text of the install_github() failure:

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> library(devtools)
Loading required package: usethis
> devtools::install_github("dcomtois/summarytools")
Downloading GitHub repo dcomtois/summarytools@HEAD
✓  checking for file ‘/private/var/folders/dp/z36bnjr93llddzjwtp0xwxbr0000gn/T/Rtmp3UOHLR/remotes147e2184b5c36/dcomtois-summarytools-5070f93/DESCRIPTION’ ...
─  preparing ‘summarytools’:
✓  checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ...
─  checking for LF line-endings in source and make files and shell scripts
─  checking for empty or unneeded directories
─  building ‘summarytools_1.0.0.tar.gz’
   
* installing *source* package ‘summarytools’ ...
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading

This is on Mac OSX 11.4. imagemagick@6 is installed:

→ brew list | grep imagema
imagemagick
imagemagick@6

[Dominic Comtois]

Hmmm are you updating from an earlier version? Have you tried installing from Rgui with a clean .Rprofile?

I don't think it specific to summarytools per se, although it does have many dependancies so maybe one of them triggers the problem. You can go through some google search results for ppl having similar problems, and try the relevant suggestions.

If nothing works, maybe try StackOverflow and/or the R mailing list and pls let us know how what you find! Thx

Edit

Also see potentially relevant cbail/textnets#12
Here, too, some things to try out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32122780/lazy-loading-error-in-r-package