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Lately the build with Appveyor does not work any more. It fails before actually building the program, because somehow the package stringi can't be installed.

Locally everything works fine, but I need a workaround for Appveyor. Has anybody a solution on how to fix this?

This is the error message on Appveyor:

  • installing source package 'stringi' ... ** package 'stringi' successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked ** libs * arch - i386 c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++ -std=gnu++11 -I"c:/R/include" -DNDEBUG -I. -Iicu61/ -Iicu61/unicode -Iicu61/common -Iicu61/i18n -DU_STATIC_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_COMMON_IMPLEMENTATION -DU_I18N_IMPLEMENTATION -DUCONFIG_USE_LOCAL -DU_TOOLUTIL_IMPLEMENTATION -DNDEBUG -DWINVER=0x0600 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600 -DU_USE_STRTOD_L=0 -O2 -Wall -mtune=generic -c stri_ICU_settings.cpp -o stri_ICU_settings.o /bin/sh: c:/Rtools/mingw_32/bin/g++: No such file or directory make: * [stri_ICU_settings.o] Error 127 ERROR: compilation failed for package 'stringi'
  • removing 'c:/RLibrary/stringi' In R CMD INSTALL Error in i.p(...) : (converted from warning) installation of package 'stringi' had non-zero exit status Calls: ... with_rprofile_user -> with_envvar -> force -> force -> i.p Execution halted Command exited with code 1

See also: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/frehbach/eventdetectr/builds/19569698

Steffen Moritz
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You can fix this by adding

USE_RTOOLS: true

to your appveyor.yml (see here).

The issue is that since you don't have any code that needs compiling, AppVeyor doesn't install Rtools, but compiling stringi obviously requires Rtools; see line 40 of the build log you linked to:

== 10/17/2018 06:33:11: Skipping download of Rtools because src/ directory is missing.

Using the AppVeyor setting mentioned above will force the installation of Rtools anyway.

duckmayr
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