Installing the R package mapview on Ubuntu 20.04 - r

Question

I am trying to install the R package mapview on Ubuntu but I get the error:
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘mapview’
I have tried installing both the CRAN version of mapview and the development version, ie, by:
remotes::install_github("r-spatial/mapview")
In either case, I always get variations of the same message:
> install.packages("mapview")
Installing package into ‘/home/<my user name>/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
trying URL 'https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/mapview_2.10.0.tar.gz'
Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 1683417 bytes (1.6 MB)
==================================================
downloaded 1.6 MB
* installing *source* package ‘mapview’ ...
** package ‘mapview’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
** using staged installation
** R
** data
*** moving datasets to lazyload DB
** inst
** byte-compile and prepare package for lazy loading
corrupted size vs. prev_size
Aborted (core dumped)
ERROR: lazy loading failed for package ‘mapview’
* removing ‘/home/<my username>/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.1/mapview’
Warning in install.packages :
installation of package ‘mapview’ had non-zero exit status
The downloaded source packages are in
‘/tmp/RtmpKtQmnI/downloaded_packages’
If I try the development version, it asks me to update other packages (eg, raster) but then the same problem occurs for that package.
Other postings have suggested that the error can be fixed by restarting the R session. I have not found this to be the case.
My Session Info is:
R version 4.1.2 (2021-11-01)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0
locale:
[1] LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NUMERIC=C LC_TIME=en_NZ.UTF-8
[4] LC_COLLATE=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MONETARY=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_MESSAGES=en_NZ.UTF-8
[7] LC_PAPER=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_NAME=C LC_ADDRESS=C
[10] LC_TELEPHONE=C LC_MEASUREMENT=en_NZ.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] rstudioapi_0.13 magrittr_2.0.1 usethis_2.1.3 devtools_2.4.3 pkgload_1.2.4
[6] R6_2.5.1 rlang_0.4.12 fastmap_1.1.0 tools_4.1.2 pkgbuild_1.2.1
[11] sessioninfo_1.2.2 cli_3.1.0 withr_2.4.3 ellipsis_0.3.2 remotes_2.4.2
[16] rprojroot_2.0.2 lifecycle_1.0.1 crayon_1.4.2 processx_3.5.2 purrr_0.3.4
[21] callr_3.7.0 fs_1.5.1 ps_1.6.0 testthat_3.1.1 curl_4.3.2
[26] memoise_2.0.1 glue_1.6.0 cachem_1.0.6 compiler_4.1.2 desc_1.4.0
[31] prettyunits_1.1.1

Answer 1

I can't reproduce your error, but you could solve it by installing R with Conda and then the package with https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/r-mapview