[SPARK-28309] AppVeyor fails to install testthat (1.0.2) due to previously installed testthat (2.1.0) due to devtools

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0
• Component/s: Project Infra, SparkR
• Assignee: Hyukjin Kwon
• Reporter: Hyukjin Kwon
• Created: 09/Jul/19 01:11
• Updated: 12/Dec/22 18:10
• Resolved: 09/Jul/19 03:07

Description

Looks like devtools 2.1.0 is released and then our AppVeyor users the latest one.
The problem is, they added testthat 2.1.1+ as its dependency - https://github.com/r-lib/devtools/blob/master/DESCRIPTION#L35

Usually it should remove and reinstall it properly; however, seems it's being failed in AppVeyor due to the previous installation.

[00:01:41] > devtools::install_version('testthat', version = '1.0.2', repos='https://cloud.r-project.org/')
[00:01:44] Downloading package from url: https://cloud.r-project.org//src/contrib/Archive/testthat/testthat_1.0.2.tar.gz
...
[00:02:25] WARNING: moving package to final location failed, copying instead
[00:02:25] Warning in file.copy(instdir, dirname(final_instdir), recursive = TRUE,  :
[00:02:25]   problem copying c:\RLibrary\00LOCK-testthat\00new\testthat\libs\i386\testthat.dll to c:\RLibrary\testthat\libs\i386\testthat.dll: Permission denied
[00:02:25] ** testing if installed package can be loaded from final location
[00:02:25] *** arch - i386
[00:02:26] Error: package or namespace load failed for 'testthat' in FUN(X[[i]], ...):
[00:02:26]  no such symbol find_label_ in package c:/RLibrary/testthat/libs/i386/testthat.dll
[00:02:26] Error: loading failed
[00:02:26] Execution halted
[00:02:26] *** arch - x64
[00:02:26] ERROR: loading failed for 'i386'
[00:02:26] * removing 'c:/RLibrary/testthat'
[00:02:26] * restoring previous 'c:/RLibrary/testthat'
[00:02:26] Warning in file.copy(lp, dirname(pkgdir), recursive = TRUE, copy.date = TRUE) :
[00:02:26]   problem copying c:\RLibrary\00LOCK-testthat\testthat\libs\i386\testthat.dll to c:\RLibrary\testthat\libs\i386\testthat.dll: Permission denied
[00:02:26] Warning message:
[00:02:26] In i.p(...) :
[00:02:26]   installation of package 'C:/Users/appveyor/AppData/Local/Temp/1/RtmpIx25hi/remotes5743d4a9b1/testthat' had non-zero exit status

devtools was installed at SPARK-22817 to pin the testthat version.

Therefore, we might have to work around this by directly installing from the archive.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #25081