I am not able to install XML. The error appears to occur during configuration. I did just install the current version of libxml2. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks
Session info:
R version 3.3.3 (2017-03-06)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8 LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
[5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8 LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C
[9] LC_ADDRESS=C LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] BiocInstaller_1.24.0
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_3.3.3
> biocLite("XML")
BioC_mirror: https://bioconductor.org
Using Bioconductor 3.4 (BiocInstaller 1.24.0), R 3.3.3 (2017-03-06).
Installing package(s) ‘XML’
trying URL 'https://cran.rstudio.com/src/contrib/XML_3.98-1.5.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1599213 bytes (1.5 MB)
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downloaded 1.5 MB
* installing *source* package ‘XML’ ...
** package ‘XML’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for sed... /bin/sed
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking for xml2-config... /usr/bin/xml2-config
USE_XML2 = yes
SED_EXTENDED_ARG: -E
Minor 9, Patch 3 for 2.9.3
Located parser file -I/usr/include/libxml2/parser.h
Checking for 1.8: -I/usr/include/libxml2
Using libxml2.*
checking for gzopen in -lz... yes
checking for xmlParseFile in -lxml2... yes
checking for xmlHashSize in -lxml2... yes
Using built-in xmlHashSize
Checking DTD parsing (presence of externalSubset)...
checking for xmlHashSize in -lxml2... yes
Found xmlHashSize
checking for xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer in -lxml2... yes
have xmlOutputBufferCreateBuffer()
checking for xmlDocDumpFormatMemoryEnc in -lxml2... yes
checking libxml/xmlversion.h usability... yes
checking libxml/xmlversion.h presence... yes
checking for libxml/xmlversion.h... yes
Expat: FALSE
Checking for return type of xmlHashScan element routine.
No return value for xmlHashScan
xmlNs has a context field
Checking for cetype_t enumeration
No cetype_t enumeration defined in R headers.
checking for xmlsec1-config... no
nodegc default
xml-debug default
Version has XML_WITH_ZLIB
Version has xmlHasFeature()
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Configuration information:
Libxml settings
libxml include directory: -I/usr/include/libxml2
libxml library directory: -lxml2 -lz -lxml2
libxml 2: -DLIBXML2=1
Compilation flags: -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1
Link flags: -lxml2 -lz -lxml2
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating src/Makevars
config.status: creating R/supports.R
config.status: creating inst/scripts/RSXML.csh
config.status: creating inst/scripts/RSXML.bsh** libs
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_
CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c DocParse.c -o DocParse.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c EventParse.c -o EventParse.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c ExpatParse.c -o ExpatParse.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c HTMLParse.c -o HTMLParse.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c NodeGC.c -o NodeGC.o
NodeGC.c: In function ‘clearNodeMemoryManagement’:
NodeGC.c:385:96: warning: comparison between pointer and integer
int isOurs = (a = node->_private != &R_XML_NoMemoryMgmt) && (b = ((int *)(node->_private))[1] == (int *) &R_XML_MemoryMgrMarker);
^
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RSDTD.c -o RSDTD.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c RUtils.c -o RUtils.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c Rcatalog.c -o Rcatalog.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c Utils.c -o Utils.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c XMLEventParse.c -o XMLEventParse.o
gcc -std=gnu99 -I/usr/share/R/include -DNDEBUG -DLIBXML -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DUSE_EXTERNAL_SUBSET=1 -DROOT_HAS_DTD_NODE=1 -DDUMP_WITH_ENCODING=1 -DUSE_XML_VERSION_H=1 -DXML_ELEMENT_ETYPE=1 -DXML_ATTRIBUTE_ATYPE=1 -DNO_XML_HASH_SCANNER_RETURN=1 -DLIBXML_NAMESPACE_HAS_CONTEXT=1 -DHAVE_XML_WITH_ZLIB=1 -DHAVE_XML_HAS_FEATURE=1 -DUSE_R=1 -D_R_=1 -DHAVE_VALIDITY=1 -DXML_REF_COUNT_NODES=1 -I. -DLIBXML2=1 -fpic -g -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -c XMLTree.c -o XMLTree.o
XMLTree.c: In function ‘R_xmlSearchNs’:
XMLTree.c:1695:39: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
xmlDocPtr doc = (xmlDocPtr) r_doc == NULL_USER_OBJECT ? NULL : R_ExternalPtrAddr(r_doc);
^
[additional lines of similar error omitted for character limit]
installing to /home/adam/R/x86_64-pc-linux-
gnu-library/3.3/XML/libs
** R
** inst
** preparing package for lazy loading
Creating a generic function for ‘source’ from package ‘base’ in package ‘XML’
in method for ‘xmlAttrsToDataFrame’ with signature ‘"AsIs"’: no definition for class “AsIs”
in method for ‘readKeyValueDB’ with signature ‘"AsIs"’: no definition for class “AsIs”
in method for ‘readSolrDoc’ with signature ‘"AsIs"’: no definition for class “AsIs”
** help
*** installing help indices
** building package indices
** testing if installed package can be loaded
* DONE (XML)
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/Rtmpvbvr6M/downloaded_
packages’ installation path not writeable, unable to update packages: mgcv, survival
It looks like the XML package has installed, with warnings but no errors. Can you provide more informatino about what you are seeing as an error?