FastR data.table dependency not recognized

[mik3hall]

Can you reproduce with the latest development build?

Yes

Include the following info

• GraalVM version or git revisions of FastR and GraalVM repositories if built from source.

openjdk version "11.0.11" 2021-04-20
OpenJDK Runtime Environment GraalVM CE 21.2.0-dev (build 11.0.11+8-jvmci-21.2-b02)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM GraalVM CE 21.2.0-dev (build 11.0.11+8-jvmci-21.2-b02, mixed mode, sharing)

• Output of R built-in function sessionInfo().

sessionInfo()
FastR version 4.0.3 (2020-10-10)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin19.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS Catalina 10.15.7

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /Users/mjh/HalfPipe/HalfPipe_jpkg/HPGraal11/HalfPipeGraal11.app/Contents/runtime/Contents/Home/languages/R/lib/libRblas.dylib
LAPACK: /Users/mjh/HalfPipe/HalfPipe_jpkg/HPGraal11/HalfPipeGraal11.app/Contents/runtime/Contents/Home/languages/R/lib/libRlapack.dylib

locale:
[1] UTF-8/UTF-8/UTF-8/C/UTF-8/UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] tools_4.0.3

• OS name and version.

As shown in sessionInfo

The error:

R> remove.packages("data.table")
Removing package from ‘/Users/mjh/Documents/R/fastr’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
R> install.fastr.packages("data.table")
Installing package into ‘/Users/mjh/Documents/R/fastr’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
R> install.packages("mlr")
Installing package into ‘/Users/mjh/Documents/R/fastr’
(as ‘lib’ is unspecified)
Warning: dependency ‘data.table’ is not available
Content type 'application/octet-stream' length 2247800 bytes (2.1 MB)

The downloaded source packages are in
‘/private/var/folders/dh/91wmrk0n6lzfmr4tjhjmcfp40000gn/T/RtmpNAslb1/downloaded_packages’
Warning message:
In install.packages("mlr") :
installation of package ‘mlr’ had non-zero exit status
R>

The same for mlr3.

[steve-s]

I suspect that this is going to be due to mlr declaring data.table dependency with version requirement (>=1.12.4), but the data.table fork we patched to work with FastR is of version 1.10.4-3.

[mik3hall]

Sounds possible. But I don't know how difficult it would be to update the patched data.table.