Unable to install stringi in R 4.3 about stringi HOT 10 CLOSED

Try doing this directly from the terminal maybe?

1. Start R
2. Run install.packages("stringi")

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(I just installed stringi this way after the update to R 4.3.0)

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The code snippet earlier was straight from the terminal, I tried it both in dataspell and just in the terminal and got the same errors

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Just did a dummy-check and tried it again in the terminal. This is what I got

I'm led to believe this might be a dependency issue, but as far as I know I have everything I need installed (at least what was stated in the documentation)

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I guess you should either update ICU on your system (I don't know which system are you on, so can't give you more details) or use install.packages("stringi", configure.args="--disable-pkg-config"). HTH

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So using the --disable-pkg-config was able to get it installed, but I'm still having issues with other libraries, so I want to make sure that it isn't the same issue.

I'm currently running Pop_os! 22.04, and it seems I have ICU version 72.1 currently on my system. I'm trying to find out how to update that, but things are almost looking like its a "just use R version 4.2 for now" angle.

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It's a Ubuntu flavour, so maybe sudo apt install libicu-dev ?

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Yup, states it's already installed on the latest version (version 70.1-2). It appears that they don't have the updated version on the apt repository.

I think for now I'm going to look into downgrading to 4.2. I somewhat plan to refresh my system with a fresh OS install after my semester ends, so I'll try it again then.

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Just to confirm I have a similar error when I try to import packages that depends on stringi:

[jmaric@padobran mlr3-supek]$ apptainer run image.sif test.R
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘batchtools’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/home/jmaric/Rlibs/stringi/libs/stringi.so':
  libicui18n.so.60: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
In addition: Warning message:
package ‘batchtools’ was built under R version 4.3.1
Execution halted

Linux info:

NAME="Rocky Linux"
VERSION="8.8 (Green Obsidian)"
ID="rocky"
ID_LIKE="rhel centos fedora"
VERSION_ID="8.8"
PLATFORM_ID="platform:el8"
PRETTY_NAME="Rocky Linux 8.8 (Green Obsidian)"
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
LOGO="fedora-logo-icon"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:rocky:rocky:8:GA"
HOME_URL="https://rockylinux.org/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.rockylinux.org/"
SUPPORT_END="2029-05-31"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky-Linux-8"
ROCKY_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.8"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT="Rocky Linux"
REDHAT_SUPPORT_PRODUCT_VERSION="8.8"

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Could you try installing stringi via install.packages("stringi", configure.args="--disable-pkg-config") as per https://stringi.gagolewski.com/install.html ?

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It seems thare were some problems with R libpaths. I have created R lib path for the user and inside container. I have deleted one T lib path and now works. Seems it is not directly connected with stringi, at least in my case.

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