Survminer package loading error

[massimofagg]

Hello,
I am encountering the following error when trying to load the survminer package:

Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘survminer’ in loadNamespace(j <- i[[1L]], c(lib.loc, .libPaths()), versionCheck = vI[[j]]):
there is no package called ‘cmprsk’

Then I try to install the package cmprsk but unfortunately this package is not available for R version 3.5.1

How could I solve this?

Massimo

[massimofagg]

I solved by updating R to current version.

[kassambara]

so we can close this issue, thanks

[StevenMMortimer]

@kassambara I still believe this issue should be open as a bug and fixed because it implies your package documentation is not correct. Your package depends on R 3.6.0 because your dependencies (cmprsk) depend on R >= 3.6.0, but that's not defined in your DESCRIPTION file. I would recommend adding Depends: R (>= 3.6.0) to your DESCRIPTION file.

[kassambara]

Thank you @StevenMMortimer for pointing this out! We'll update the package accoordingly

[kassambara]

The recent update of package cmprsk suddenly requires the current R version >= 3.6.0, forcing survminer users to update their R version

As cmprsk is only used in documentations, we can move it from Imports section to suggests, so that the installation of survminer no longer needs cmprsk

[kassambara]

Dependency to cmprsk now removed.

You can install the latest dev version as follow:

devtools::install_github("kassambara/survminer", build_vignettes = FALSE)